[R] problems in loading MASS

[Weiwei Shi]

Hi Charilaos:

I think the installation has no problem as indicated by
"install.packages()". Anyway, I tried your way but unfortunately it
does not help.

Thanks though,

-W

On 4/12/07, Charilaos Skiadas <skiadas at hanover.edu> wrote:
> Weiwei,
>
>         I have never had much success installing packages from within R.app
> on MacOSX, because the location that it is supposed to save things, /
> Library/Frameworks/...., needs elevated priviledges, which the app
> doesn't seem to try to get.  So it at best ends up saving it in some
> temporary location, and it has to be downloaded again next time R is
> restarted.
>
> As a result, I have always downloaded the tgz file from my browser,
> then go to the terminal in that folder and do a "sudo R CMD INSTALL
> packagename.tgz".
>
> But perhaps I am doing something wrong and one can do this properly
> from within R.app, I would love to be wrong on this one.
>
>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
> powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0
>
> locale:
> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
> "methods"   "base"
>  >
>
> Haris Skiadas
> Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
> Hanover College
>
> On Apr 12, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Weiwei Shi wrote:
>
> > Hi, there:
> >
> > After I upgraded my R to 2.4.1, it is my first time of trying to use
> > MASS and found the following error message:
> >> install.packages("MASS")
> > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> > trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/universal/
> > contrib/2.4/VR_7.2-33.tgz'
> > Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 995260 bytes
> > opened URL
> > ==================================================
> > downloaded 971Kb
> >
> >
> > The downloaded packages are in
> >       /tmp/RtmpmAzBwa/downloaded_packages
> >
> >> library(MASS)
> > Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
> >       unable to load shared library
> > '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.4/Resources/library/
> > MASS/libs/i386/MASS.so':
> >   dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.4/Resources/
> > library/MASS/libs/i386/MASS.so,
> > 6): Library not loaded:
> > /usr/local/gcc4.0/i686-apple-darwin8/lib/libgcc_s.1.0.dylib
> >   Referenced from:
> > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.4/Resources/library/MASS/
> > libs/i386/MASS.so
> >   Reason: image not found
> > Error: package/namespace load failed for 'MASS'
> >
> >
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
> > i386-apple-darwin8.8.1
> >
> > locale:
> > en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
> > "methods"   "base"
> >
> > other attached packages:
> > randomForest        dprep
> >     "4.5-18"        "1.0"
> >
> >
> >> version
> >                _
> > platform       i386-apple-darwin8.8.1
> > arch           i386
> > os             darwin8.8.1
> > system         i386, darwin8.8.1
> > status
> > major          2
> > minor          4.1
> > year           2006
> > month          12
> > day            18
> > svn rev        40228
> > language       R
> > version.string R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Weiwei Shi, Ph.D
> > Research Scientist
> > GeneGO, Inc.
>
>
>
>
>


-- 
Weiwei Shi, Ph.D
Research Scientist
GeneGO, Inc.

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