[R] Rcmdr doesn't seem to work

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The problem is rather that your installation of rgl is out-of-date or 
corrupt, as the error message says.

I do not believe you do have the current rgl, and you need to get it.


On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 v.demartino2 at virgilio.it wrote:

> Context: Windows XP - R 2.0.1 with the latest updated packages (including
> Rcmdr)
>
> I'm trying to load Rcmdr to use the 3d plots (e.g. scatter3d) but here it
> is what happens:
>
>> library(Rcmdr)
> Loading required package: zoo
> Loading required package: strucchange
> Loading required package: sandwich
> Loading required package: relimp
> Loading required package: mvtnorm
> Loading required package: multcomp
> Loading required package: lmtest
> Loading required package: effects
> Loading required package: car
> Loading required package: abind
> Loading required package: rgl
> Error in library(package, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE, warn.conflicts
> = warn.conflicts,  :
> 	'rgl' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0?
> Error: .onLoad failed in loadNamespace for 'Rcmdr'
> Error in library(Rcmdr) : package/namespace load failed for 'Rcmdr'
>
> What should I do?

Try install.packages("rgl"), or use the menus to install it.

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