[R] Addon packages

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Kåre Edvardsen wrote:

> I'm trying to add 'gplots' from install.packages("gplots", lib =
> "/usr/lib/R/library", dependencies = TRUE) on a linux host, but R does
> not seem to figure out there's a new package installed (yes, I've
> restarted the R-session). I've tried the default, and different library
> folders, without success. Installation does not report any warnings or
> bad exit status, so this one beats me...
> 
> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?

FAQ 7.30, I think:

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#I-installed-a-package-but-the-functions-are-not-there

"gplots" %in% installed.packages()[,1]

library(gplots)

require(gplots)

come to mind. Looking at search() can also be instructive.

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