[R] package does not have a NAMESPACE

[Uwe Ligges]

On 27.01.2012 19:51, Ondřej Mikula wrote:
> Dear r-helpers,
>
> I have a trouble with a package downloaded from sourceforge.net
> (namely the package 'kopls'). I installed it from the local zip file
> with the expected result
>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
> package ‘kopls’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> but when I tried to load it I obtained the following error message
>> require(kopls)
> Loading required package: kopls
> Failed with error:  ‘package ‘kopls’ does not have a NAMESPACE and
> should be re-installed’
>
> I tried to contact its developers but with no reaction. Could anybody
> give me an advice how to solve the problem on my own?
> Many thanks in advance
>
> Ondrej Mikula
>
>

Obviously the package does not have an explicit namespace and the 
Windows binary was build with an outdated version of R (otherwise R had 
added a default namespace).

Hence: Install from the sources (as described in the manual R 
Installation and Administration).

Uwe Ligges