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

[Uwe Ligges]

On 18.10.2010 09:01, Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote:
> I get exactly the same error with package 'RWinEdt' -- though in
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/ReadMe it is
> mentioned that this has probably something to do with GUI interactions??


In that case you upgraded R but forgot to update RWinEdt

Please run

update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE)

and try again.

Uwe Ligges



> Best,
> Dimitris
>
>
> On 10/18/2010 8:49 AM, 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>
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