[R] How to solve lazy-loading faiolure for pkg gstat - was (disable lazy-loading in install.packages() ?)

[Uwe Ligges]

Ulrich Leopold wrote:

> Because I get the follwoing message:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> ** R
> ** data
> ** demo
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), keep.source) :
>         there is no package called 'sp'

Obviously, "gstat" requires package "sp". What about installing it at first?

Uwe Ligges


> Execution halted
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'gstat'
> ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/gstat'
> ** Restoring previous '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/gstat'
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I do not know how to solve it other than disabling lazy-loading. But maybe I
> can re-phrase my question to:
> 
> How to solve lazy-loading failure for installation of package gstat under
> 
> 
>>R.version
> 
>          _
> platform i486-pc-linux-gnu
> arch     i486
> os       linux-gnu
> system   i486, linux-gnu
> status
> major    2
> minor    1.1
> year     2005
> month    06
> day      20
> language R
> 
> ?
> 
> 
> Any suggestions welcome.
> 
> 
> On Tue, March 7, 2006 10:29, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
>>Why do you want to?
>>
>>As from a near-future version of R, you will not be able to do this via R
>>CMD INSTALL.  The recommended place to specify this is in the packages'
>>DESCRIPTION files, and why do you think you know better than the packages'
>>authors?  (Quite a few packages will not work with it turned off.)
>>
>>On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Ulrich Leopold wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>R.version
>>>
>>>        _
>>>platform i486-pc-linux-gnu
>>>arch     i486
>>>os       linux-gnu
>>>system   i486, linux-gnu
>>>status
>>>major    2
>>>minor    1.1
>>>year     2005
>>>month    06
>>>day      20
>>>language R
>>>
>>>
>>>Dear list,
>>>
>>>how can I disable lazy-loading in 'install.packages("some packages")'?
>>>
>>>I know of the possiblity to switch it off with 'R CMD INSTALL'. But I do not
>>>want to leave R on several machines and download the source code and install
>>>it with 'R CMD INSTALL'.
>>>
>>>Is there a way of disabling it within an R session?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Ulrich
>>
>>--
>>Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>>Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>>University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>>1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>>Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>>
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Ulrich Leopold MSc.
> 
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