[R] Can't install Sweave

[Gavin Simpson]

On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 14:07 +0100, Rainer Schuermann wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> I tried to work with Sweave, assuming that it is part of the standard
> installation - which it was not for my system. Trying to install, it
> gives me this error message:

Why do you think it wasn't installed? There is no package "Sweave".

Sweave() is a function in package "utils", which you session info
indicates you have and is loaded.

Care to tell us what you want to do with Sweave and why you think it
isn't working?

HTH

G


> > install.packages("Sweave")
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>   package ‘Sweave’ is not available
> 
> My system data are:
> 
> > sessionInfo()                                                                                                           
> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)                                                                                             
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)                                                                                    
>                                                                                                                           
> locale:                                                                                                                   
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C                                                                              
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8                                                                    
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8                                                                   
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                                                                                 
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C                                                                            
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C                                                                       
>                                                                                                                           
> attached base packages:                                                                                                   
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  grid      methods                                                   
> [8] base                                                                                                                  
>                                                                                                                           
> other attached packages:                                                                                                  
> [1] reshape_0.8.3 plyr_1.2.1    proto_0.3-8                                                                               
>                                                                                                                           
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):                                                                                
> [1] ggplot2_0.8.8
> 
> Any idea what I need to do?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Rainer
> 
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