[R] ERROR: installing package indices failed

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Sigal Blay wrote:

> Dear R-helpers,
>
> I am developing a package named LDehatmap.
> It depends on the "genetics" package
> and includes two data files and a demo file.
> When I'm trying to install it, I get the following messages:
>
> * Installing *source* package 'LDheatmap' ...
> ** R
> ** data
> ** demo
> ** help
> >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'LDheatmap'
>     Formats: text html latex example
>  LDheatmap                text    html    latex   example
>  ldheatmap                text    html    latex   example
> Error: object 'reorder' not found whilst loading namespace 'gdata'
> Error: package 'gdata' could not be loaded
> Execution halted
> ERROR: installing package indices failed
>
> Any ideas?

Yes.  You do not have gdata (part of gregmisc) installed, and genetics 
depends on it.  How did you get genetics installed? A binary install?

Install gregmisc ....

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