[R] Can't load package 'lars'

[Luc Villandre]

Hello,

I do think so.

###
[villandre at stat04 lars]$ pwd
/home/villandre/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/2.11/lars
[villandre at stat04 lars]$ ls
data  DESCRIPTION  help  html  INDEX  libs  Meta  NAMESPACE  R
###

I re-installed it and I still get the same error message.

####

> install.packages("lars", lib = "~/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/2.11")

trying URL 'http://software.rc.fas.harvard.edu/mirrors/R/src/contrib/lars_0.9-8.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 172011 bytes (167 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 167 Kb

* installing *source* package ‘lars’ ...
** libs
gfortran -m64   -fpic  -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -c delcol.f -o delcol.o
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 -o lars.so delcol.o -lgfortran -lm -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -lR
installing to /mnt/prism/s20/villandre/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/2.11/lars/libs
** R
** data
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
  converting help for package ‘lars’
    finding HTML links ... done
    cv.lars                                 html 
    diabetes                                html 
    lars-internal                           html 
    lars                                    html 
    plot.lars                               html 
    predict.lars                            html 
    summary.lars                            html 
** building package indices ...
** testing if installed package can be loaded
Loaded lars 0.9-8

* DONE (lars)

The downloaded packages are in
        ‘/tmp/RtmphxCj4j/downloaded_packages’
> library(lars, lib.loc = "~/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/2.11")
Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'lars', details:
  call: cat("Loaded lars", utils::installed.packages()["lars", "Version"],
  error: subscript out of bounds
Error: package/namespace load failed for ‘lars’
####

It is the first time I get such an error message when trying to load a package. It would seem that the problem is with

###
cat("Loaded lars", utils::installed.packages()["lars", "Version"]
###

Is there a way to circumvent this problem (e.g. attribute an arbitrary value to utils::installed.packages()["lars", "Version"])?

Thanks for your help,

Luc
________________________________________
From: Uwe Ligges [ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de]
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 8:01 AM
To: Luc Villandre
Cc: r-help
Subject: Re: [R] Can't load package 'lars'

On 06.12.2011 03:33, Luc Villandre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed package 'lars' earlier tonight and did not get any sort of
> error message.
>
> ###
> ** building package indices ...
> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
> Loaded lars 0.9-8
>
> * DONE (lars)
> ###
>
> However, when I try to load it, I get
> ###
>  > library(lars, lib.loc = "~/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/2.11")

Are you sure it is installed at the location you specified?

Uwe Ligges



> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'lars', details:
> call: cat("Loaded lars", utils::installed.packages()["lars", "Version"],
> error: subscript out of bounds
> Error: package/namespace load failed for ‘lars’
> ###
>
> Session info:
>
> ###
>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
> Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] rpart_3.1-50 tools_2.14.0
> ###
>
> I get the same error message when I try to load it on another machine:
>
> ###
>
>  > library("lars",lib.loc = "~/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12")
> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'lars', details:
> call: cat("Loaded lars", utils::installed.packages()["lars", "Version"],
> error: subscript out of bounds
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'lars'
> ###
>
> Session info:
>
> ###
>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
> Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.13.1
> ###
>
> Is there at least a way to circumvent the problem?
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Luc Villandre
>
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