[R] Package installation errors

[Uwe Ligges]

On 06.09.2012 20:58, Santosh wrote:
> Dear Rxperts..
>
> I am trying to install a few packages in R (version 2.14.2) on a *64-bit
> Window 7* workstation. Some of the errors are posted below.. Both 32-bit
> and 64-bit versions of R were installed. I did not get errors while
> installing packages through *32-bit R*, except that it could not update
> some of the packages (already installed with 64-bit R)
>
> *A*)  When I start *64-bit R (2.14.2)*
> Loading required package: tcltk
> Loading required package: R2HTML
> Error in structure(.External("dotTcl", ..., PACKAGE = "tcltk"), class =
> "tclObj") :
>    [tcl] invalid command name "dde".
> In addition: Warning message:
> In tclRequire("dde", warn = TRUE) : Tcl package 'dde' not found
>> options(repos='http://cran.stat.ucla.edu')
>> install.packages("dde",dependencies=T)
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>    package ‘dde’ is not available (for R version 2.14.2)
>
> *B)* While installing "rJava" from *64-bit R (2.14.2)*
>> install.packages("rJava",repos='http://cran.stat.ucla.edu')
> trying URL '
> http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.14/rJava_0.9-3.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 745867 bytes (728 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 728 Kb
>
> package ‘rJava’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>          C:\Users\santosh\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsJ5HoF\downloaded_packages
>> library(rJava)
> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rJava', details:
>    call: fun(libname, pkgname)
>    error: JAVA_HOME cannot be determined from the Registry
> Error: package/namespace load failed for ‘rJava’
>
> *B*) While installing "XML" *64-bit R (2.14.2)*
>> install.packages("XML",repos='http://www.omegahat.org/R')
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>    package ‘XML’ is not available (for R version 2.14.2)
>

XML: This is because Omegahat does not host a binary version for 
R-2.14.x for Windows. Use the version from CRAN extras.


> Using  *64-bit R (2.14.2), *I could not install other packages like "xlsx"
> that depend on "rJava". Installing the latest JRE has not seemed to help.

You need a 64-bit version of Java for rJava running on a 64-bit R, I 
guess you only have a 32-bit Java installed.


Uwe Ligges




> Any suggestions/solutions are most welcome
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Santosh
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