[R] Problems in installing MCMCglmm package

[Uwe Ligges]

Sunny Srivastava wrote:
> Dear R-Helpers,
> I am having troubles with installing with MCMCglmm package and I get the
> following error with a package "Matrix"
> 
> Warning in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE,
> lib.loc = lib.loc) :
>   there is no package called 'Matrix'
> Error: package 'Matrix' could not be loaded
> Execution halted
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'MCMCglmm'
> 
> I tried installing the package Matrix - but it was unavailable.
> 
> I am not able to understand why am I encountering this error - Any help is
> appreciated


Start with a recent version of R. If you install R-2.10.1, Matrix should 
be included. If the installation fails, you need to look for the error 
messages why it failed.

Uwe Ligges





> 
> Thx,
> S.
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> 
> R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> locale:
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> [7] base
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] lattice_0.17-26 MASS_7.2-45
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] grid_2.8.1  tools_2.8.1
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