[R] Argument lib is missing

[David Winsemius]

On Sep 11, 2010, at 8:02 AM, David Winsemius wrote:

>
> On Sep 11, 2010, at 6:29 AM, khush ........ wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have installed R using yum install R-2.9.  I am able to use R for  
>> general
>> functions but when I installed some library say gplots I am getting  
>> the
>> below error.
>>
>>> install.packages("gplots")
>> Warning in install.packages("gplots") :
>> argument 'lib' is missing: using
>> '/home/fedora/R/i386-redhat-linux-gnu-library/2.11'
>
> That warning should not cause much problem.

Or maybe it would. I just noticed that you said you were using an  
ancient version of R and that library location is for the current  
version. You probably need to get advice from a fellow Redhat user if  
you want to run an outdated version. Installing packages for the  
current version is not going to be very successful. There is a  
repository of packages for older systems and you can find the link at  
the bottom of the package list on CRAN.

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/

Look for the "Archive" link.

>
>> Warning: unable to access index for repository
>> http://cran.csdb.cn/src/contrib
>
> From time to time it happens that repositories are unavailable. I  
> just checked and at the moment that repository is available. You  
> could try again. (Or you could have tried another repository at that  
> time. Trying another repository might make sense even now, since the  
> version of gplots at that repository is fairly outdated. The current  
> version is 2.8.0 and the one at csdb.cn is 2.7.1 from May 2009.  
> There have been several revisions since that date.)
>
>> Warning message:
>> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>> package ‘gplots’ is not available
>>
>> any suggestion will be appreciable.
>>
>> Thank you
>> Khush
>
> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT


David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT