[R] Installing a package yet it will not work.

[Farrel Buchinsky]

Thank you Andy. It worked. 


Farrel Buchinsky, MD --- Mobile (412) 779-1073
Pediatric Otolaryngologist
Allegheny General Hospital
Pittsburgh, PA 


-----Original Message-----
From: "Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw at merck.com> 
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 20:47
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; Farrel Buchinsky
Subject: RE: [R] Installing a package yet it will not work.

Several people have reported problem with installed packages recently, and
several turned out to be caused by the use of the StatLib mirror site.
Please try installing from a different mirror site and see if that solves
the problem for you.

Andy

From: Farrel Buchinsky
> 
> I want R to read my Microsoft Access database or maybe even a Sybase 
> database. I installed RODBC or at least thought I did. Then I issued 
> the following command:
> 
> library(RODBC)
> 
> And got
> 
> Error in lazyLoadDBfetch(key, datafile, compressed, envhook) : 
>         ReadItem: unknown type 241
> In addition: Warning message:
> package 'RODBC' was built under R version 2.3.0
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'RODBC'
> 
> I am running R2.2.1 on Windows XP. Where does one begin to 
> troubleshoot this.
> 
> Farrel Buchinsky, MD --- Mobile (412) 779-1073 Pediatric 
> Otolaryngologist Allegheny General Hospital Pittsburgh, PA
> 
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