[R] Difficulty loading packages in R version 2.12.0

[Peter Alspach]

Tena koe John

I got a similar message with a different package, and solved it by loading the latest version of the package (which was built under 2.12.0).  So you may need to get around your institutional firewall!

HTH ....

Peter Alspach

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of john moran
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 November 2010 3:45 p.m.
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Difficulty loading packages in R version 2.12.0
> 
> Hello, I wonder if I could get advice on the above problem
> 
> 
> 
> I have just installed V 2.12.0 (I chose only the 32-bit version) into a
> new
> directory (C:/R)  on a 64bit Windows 7 machine
> 
> 
> 
> > sessionInfo()
> 
> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
> 
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
> 
> locale:
> 
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252
> 
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> 
> [5] LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
> 
> attached base packages:
> 
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> 
> [1] tools_2.12.0
> 
> 
> 
> I have loaded (from a zip file in my repository, due to an
> Institutional
> fire-wall) the package "forecast":
> 
> > utils:::menuInstallLocal()
> 
> package 'forecast' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> 
> 
> 
> I get the following message when attempting to load the package:
> 
> 
> 
> > local({pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available =
> TRUE)),graphics=TRUE)
> 
> + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=TRUE)})
> 
> Error: package 'forecast' is not installed for 'arch=i386'
> 
> 
> 
> There has been a similar query (November 11th ) on this, but I seem to
> not
> have the suggested problem as:
> 
> > .libPaths()
> 
> [1] "C:/R/R-2.12.0/library" and "forecast" is in the above directory
> 
> 
> 
> Directions on this problem would be much appreciated
> 
> 
> 
> john moran
> 
> 
> 
> john.moran at adelaide.edu.au
> 
> 
> 
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