[R] geepack installation problem?

[Peter Ehlers]

On 2010-05-31 0:46, Denis B wrote:
>
> Hello R Forum members.
>
> I have installed for my statistician user, apparently without error, both
> the concord and geepack packages.   The target system is R 2.10.1 on a
> 64-bit RedHat Enterprise Linux platform.
>
> However when she attempts to invoke a function in geepack, for example...
>
> geeglm((abuse_total ~ case),id=mother, family="poisson")
>
> the resultant error is
>
> Error: could not find function "geeglm"
>
> Neither she as a user, nor myself as administrator, can get even help to
> work for geepack.  It is almost as though the package is not installed,
> regardless that the installation process appeared to complete without error.
>
> I would be grateful of some guidance for her.   I have tried this (R +
> geepack) on another Linux-based system (SuSE Enterprise Linux, also 64-bit)
> with identical results and I do not see any references to similar issues in
> amongst R Forum articles.

Has the package been attached to the search tree?
See Chapter 13 of 'An Introduction to R.

?library
library(geepack)

   -Peter Ehlers