[R] linux gplots install unhappy

[Marc Schwartz]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 18:59 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 10:17 -0800, Randy Zelick wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I use R on both windows and a "mainframe" linux installation (RedHat
> >> enterprise 3.0, which they tell me is soon to be upgraded to 4.0). On
> >> windows I installed the package gplots without trouble, and it works fine.
> >> When I attempted to do the same on the unix computer, the following error
> >> message was forthcoming:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> downloaded 216Kb
> >>
> >> * Installing *source* package 'gplots' ...
> >> ** R
> >> ** data
> >> ** inst
> >> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> >> Loading required package: gtools
> >> Warning in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE, lib.loc =
> >> lib.loc) :
> >>           there is no package called 'gtools'
> >> Error: package 'gtools' could not be loaded
> >> Execution halted
> >> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'gplots'
> >> ** Removing '/n/fs/disk/resuser02/u/zelickr/R/library/gplots'
> >>
> >> The downloaded packages are in
> >>          /tmp/RtmpikM2JW/downloaded_packages
> >> Warning messages:
> >> 1: installation of package 'gplots' had non-zero exit status in:
> >> install.packages("gplots", lib = "~/R/library")
> >> 2: cannot create HTML package index in:
> >> tools:::unix.packages.html(.Library)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Can someone provide the bit of information I need to progress with this?
> >>
> >> Thanks very much,
> >>
> >> =Randy=
> >
> > gplots has a dependency on other packages (gtools and gdata).
> >
> > Thus, when you install it use:
> >
> >  install.packages("gplots", dependencies = TRUE, ...)
> >
> > That will download and install the other packages as well.
> >
> > There should have been a similar requirement under Windows, so not sure
> > what may have been different there, unless there is some confounding due
> 
> You don't need gtools to install a binary package, just to use it!
> I suspect the menu was used on Windows, where dependencies = TRUE is the 
> default.
> 
> Come 2.5.0 this sort of query will go away, as the essential dependencies 
> become the default on all platforms.

Thanks for the clarifications.

Regards,

Marc