[R] problem loading package 'gplots'

[Gregory Warnes]

Hi Erin,

Since the error occurs during the loading of the gtools package, I  
would suggest upgrading to a newer version of gtools to see if this  
solves your problem.

-G

On Aug 24, 2007, at 12:49PM , Erin Berryman wrote:

> Dear R community,
>
> I am using R version 2.4.1 GUI 1.18 on an iBook G4 with OS 10.4.10.
> When I try to load package 'gplots' I get the following message:
>
>> library(gplots)
> Loading required package: gdata
>
> Attaching package: 'gdata'
>
>
> 	The following object(s) are masked _by_ .GlobalEnv :
>
> 	 reorder.factor
>
> Loading required package: gtools
>
> Attaching package: 'gtools'
>
>
> 	The following object(s) are masked from package:car :
>
> 	 logit
>
> Error in `parent.env<-`(`*tmp*`, value = NULL) :
> 	use of NULL environment is defunct
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'gplots'
>
> 'gplots' is not loaded. I have downloaded 'gplots' version 2.3.2
> several times with no apparent problems:
>
> trying URL 'http://www.biometrics.mtu.edu/CRAN/bin/macosx/universal/
> contrib/2.4/gplots_2.3.2.tgz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 317388 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 309Kb
>
>
> The downloaded packages are in
> 	/tmp/RtmpbvGZnQ/downloaded_packages
>
>
>
> I am confused by this because I successfully used 'gplots' about a
> year ago with no problem on the same machine. The only differences I
> can think of since then is that I have upgraded to a newer version of
> R as well as upgraded from Mac OS 10.3 to 10.4.
>
> Any suggestions are very welcome. I really want to use barplot2()
> with some data I just worked up.
>
>
> Erin
>
>
> Erin Berryman
> Graduate Student
> Department of Forest Resources
> University of Idaho
> Moscow, ID 83843
> 208-559-5705
>
>
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