[R] problem loading package 'gplots'

[Erin Berryman]

Thank you, but the version of 'gtools' I have is 2.3.1, which is the  
same as the current version in the repository. Is there a more recent  
version out there?

Erin


On Aug 24, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Gregory Warnes wrote:

> 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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