[R] Problem loading SpareM package

[roger koenker]

url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger            Roger Koenker
email    rkoenker at uiuc.edu            Department of Economics
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On Oct 12, 2006, at 7:12 AM, Roger Bivand wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Coomaren Vencatasawmy wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>  I have just installed R 2.4.0 and when I try to load SpareseM, I get
>> the following error message
>>
>> library(SparseM)
>> Package SparseM (0.71) loaded.  To cite, see citation("SparseM")
>> Error in loadNamespace(package, c(which.lib.loc, lib.loc),  
>> keep.source = keep.source) :
>>         in 'SparseM' methods specified for export, but none  
>> defined: as.matrix.csr, as.matrix.csc, as.matrix.ssr,  
>> as.matrix.ssc, as.matrix.coo, as.matrix, t, coerce, dim, diff,  
>> diag, diag<-, det, norm, chol, backsolve, solve, model.matrix,  
>> model.response, %*%, %x%, image
>> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'SparseM'
>>
>
> Please re-install the package. All contributed packages using new- 
> style
> classes need to be re-installed because the internal representation of
> such classes and methods has changed, see CHANGES TO S4 METHODS in  
> NEWS.
> Doing:
>
> update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE)
>
> will check your libraries for packages built under previous  
> releases and
> replace them with ones built for the platform release.
>
>>
>> I have contacted the package maintainers and they couldn't be of  
>> any help.
>>
>> I do not recall getting this error in older R versions.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Coomaren
>>
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>
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