[R] 0 exit status on packages update try

stephen sefick ssefick at gmail.com
Thu Jul 8 15:42:08 CEST 2010


I am not entirely sure what is going on.  I am sure that I am missing
something.  maptools won't detach...  Thanks for all of your help.

R 2.11.1
OS Ubuntu 10.04

R --vanilla

install.packages("sp", dep=TRUE)

Loading required package: reshape
Loading required package: plyr
Loading required package: grid
Loading required package: proto
This is vegan 1.17-3
Loading required package: zoo
Loading required package: stats
Loading required package: chron
Loading required package: maptools
Loading required package: foreign
Loading required package: sp
Loading required package: lattice

	Note: polygon geometry computations in maptools
 	depend on the package gpclib, which has a
 	restricted licence. It is disabled by default;
 	to enable gpclib, type gpclibPermit()

Checking rgeos availability as gpclib substitute:
FALSE
General Polygon Clipper Library for R (version 1.5-1)
	Type 'class ? gpc.poly' for help

[1] TRUE
* installing *source* package ‘sp’ ...
** libs
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include      -fpic  -g -O2 -c
Rcentroid.c -o Rcentroid.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include      -fpic  -g -O2 -c gcdist.c -o gcdist.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include      -fpic  -g -O2 -c init.c -o init.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include      -fpic  -g -O2 -c pip.c -o pip.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include      -fpic  -g -O2 -c pip2.c -o pip2.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include      -fpic  -g -O2 -c
sp_xports.c -o sp_xports.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include      -fpic  -g -O2 -c
surfaceArea.c -o surfaceArea.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include      -fpic  -g -O2 -c zerodist.c
-o zerodist.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -o sp.so Rcentroid.o gcdist.o init.o pip.o
pip2.o sp_xports.o surfaceArea.o zerodist.o -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -lR
installing to /home/ssefick/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.11/sp/libs
** R
** data
** demo
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Error: package ‘sp’ is required by ‘maptools’ so will not be detached
* removing ‘/home/ssefick/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.11/sp’
* restoring previous ‘/home/ssefick/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.11/sp’

The downloaded packages are in
	‘/tmp/Rtmp3UTqA6/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("sp", dep = TRUE) :
  installation of package 'sp' had non-zero exit status

-- 
Stephen Sefick
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