[R] Message: No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?)

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 1/13/2009 9:01 AM, Powers, Randall - BLS wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I'm actually the system administrator of a UNIX system where several
> users use R version 2.6.0. I have a user who is trying to use the SURVEY
> package, and when he does, he gets the message:
> 
>  survey' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0?
> 
> 
> When I run the library() command, I get (see below):
> 
> Anything that is listed as ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> gives me the above mentioned error message. Thus, my question is, how do
> I get those particular packages to work?

They need to be reinstalled.  I think running "update.packages()" from 
within R should do it if you have a network connection, but I don't know 
if all current versions have been tested on 2.6.0, so I'd also strongly 
suggest updating your R to 2.8.1.  At the very minimum update R to 
2.6.2, the bug fix release that followed 2.6.0.

Duncan Murdoch


> 
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> library()
> Packages in library '/usr/local/lib/R/library':
> 
> FinTS                   ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> KernSmooth              Functions for kernel smoothing for Wand & Jones
>                         (1995)
> MASS                    Main Package of Venables and Ripley's MASS
> Matrix                  ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> R2HTML                  ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> RWinEdt                 ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> base                    The R Base Package
> boot                    Bootstrap R (S-Plus) Functions (Canty)
> bootstrap               ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> car                     ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> class                   Functions for Classification
> cluster                 Cluster Analysis Extended Rousseeuw et al.
> codetools               Code Analysis Tools for R
> datasets                The R Datasets Package
> foreign                 ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> gplots                  ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> grDevices               The R Graphics Devices and Support for Colours
>                         and Fonts
> graphics                The R Graphics Package
> grid                    The Grid Graphics Package
> lattice                 Lattice Graphics
> methods                 Formal Methods and Classes
> mgcv                    GAMs with GCV smoothness estimation and GAMMs
>                         by REML/PQL
> nlme                    Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models
> nnet                    Feed-forward Neural Networks and Multinomial
>                         Log-Linear Models
> pastecs                 ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> pps                     ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> prettyR                 ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> rcompgen                Completion generator for R
> rpart                   Recursive Partitioning
> sampling                ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> spatial                 Functions for Kriging and Point Pattern
>                         Analysis
> splines                 Regression Spline Functions and Classes
> stats                   The R Stats Package
> stats4                  Statistical Functions using S4 Classes
> survey                  ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> survival                Survival analysis, including penalised
>                         likelihood.
> tcltk                   Tcl/Tk Interface
> tools                   Tools for Package Development
> utils                   The R Utils Package
> 
> 
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