[R] problems loading package "nlme" in Debian Sid

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:13:50PM +0100, Federico Calboli wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I apologize if the following has been already asked, but I could not
> find anything in the archives.
> 
> I am running Debian Sid (on an Athlon XP), with R 1.8.1.cvs.20040307-1
> (it describes itself as "R 1.9.0 experimental" when I fire R up) and I
> am unable to load the library "nlme" (I apt-getted r-recommended, so the
> library is on the system)
> 
> >library(nlme)
> Error in loadNamespace((i[[1]],c(lib.loc, .libPath()),keep.source):
> package "mva" does not have a namespace
> 
> In fact, in my /etc/lib/R/library/mva/ does not have a NAMESPACE file.
> How can I fix this? 
> 
> I hope the fix is not as simple as upgrading to the latest cvs... but
> the machine in question cannot be up online until later today, so I
> could not test this out. If that's the case, I apologise for the wasted
> bandwidth.

As you may know, I have been building and uploading both pre-1.9.0 version
of R itself (in the 1.8.1.cvs.$DATE packages, currently at
1.8.1.cvs.20040331) and of all (previously packaged) packages in
$CRAN/src/contrib/1.9.0/ which includes nlme.

As for your problem, a simple upgrade to the newest versions should do, see
below.  If you go with Debian 'sid' aka 'unstable', I do recommend a quick
'apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade' every few days. The problem described
here has been reported and fixed before. See below for a log, it simply
works if you have the current components.

Hope this helps,  Dirk


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> 
> Federico Calboli
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