[R] R 2.12.0 for Windows: error when loading (some) packages

[Renaud Lancelot]

Of course you're right!!! I had a copy of lattice in C:/R/RLIBS

> .libPaths()
> [1] "C:/R/RLIBS"            "C:/R/R-2.12.0/library"

I have removed it and this has solved the problem.

Thank you very much.


2010/10/18 Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Renaud Lancelot wrote:
>
>> Thank you. I have read the CHANGES file as well as the FAQ, indeed. I
>> have uninstalled R, removed the remaining directories and reinstalled
>> the new version. I have also run
>>
>> update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FALSE)
>>
>> Everything works fine except for the recommended package lattice:
>>
>>> library(lattice)
>>
>> Error: package 'lattice' is not installed for 'arch=i386'
>>
>> Did I do something wrong? I'd be interested to know if others met the
>> same problem.
>
> Please locate it -- you have an old copy in your library path and it is not
> available as a binary for 2.12.0.
>
>>
>>
>> 2010/10/18 Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
>>>
>>> This is the very first item in the CHANGES file for 2.12.0 ....
>>>
>>> How to upgrade your R is an FAQ,
>>>
>>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#What_0027s-the-best-way-to-upgrade_003f
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Renaud Lancelot wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I have installed the latest version of R 2.12.0 available on CRAN
>>>> (http://cran.r-project.org). When I try to load the recommended
>>>> package lattice:
>>>>
>>>>> library(lattice)
>>>>
>>>> Error: package 'lattice' is not installed for 'arch=i386'
>>>>
>>>> I am running Rgui using
>>>> C:\R\R-2.12.0\bin\i386\Rgui.exe --vanilla
>>>>
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>
>>>> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
>>>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252
>>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>> [5] LC_TIME=French_France.1252
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>>
>>>> By the way, I met the same error when trying to load many contributed
>>>> packages which were installed in a separate library
>>>>
>>>>> .libPaths()
>>>>
>>>> [1] "C:/R/RLIBS"            "C:/R/R-2.12.0/library"
>>>>
>>>> I had to reinstall them from CRAN.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Renaud Lancelot
>>>> EDEN Project, coordinator
>>>> http://www.eden-fp6project.net/
>>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Renaud Lancelot
>> EDEN Project, coordinator
>> http://www.eden-fp6project.net/
>>
>> UMR CIRAD-INRA "Contrôle des maladies animales exotiques et émergentes"
>> Joint research unit "Control of emerging and exotic animal diseases"
>>
>> CIRAD, Campus International de Baillarguet TA A-DIR / B
>> F34398 Montpellier
>> http://umr-cmaee.cirad.fr/
>>
>> Tel.  +33 4 67 59 37 17  -  Fax  +33 4 67 59 37 95
>> Secr. +33 4 67 59 37 37  - Cell. +33 6 77 52 08 69
>>
>
> --
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595



-- 
Renaud Lancelot
EDEN Project, coordinator
http://www.eden-fp6project.net/

UMR CIRAD-INRA "Contrôle des maladies animales exotiques et émergentes"
Joint research unit "Control of emerging and exotic animal diseases"

CIRAD, Campus International de Baillarguet TA A-DIR / B
F34398 Montpellier
http://umr-cmaee.cirad.fr/

Tel.  +33 4 67 59 37 17  -  Fax  +33 4 67 59 37 95
Secr. +33 4 67 59 37 37  - Cell. +33 6 77 52 08 69