[R] Error: package/namespace load failed for ‘arm’

[Uwe Ligges]

On 01.02.2013 12:29, Pernille Heelsberg wrote:
> Hi!
> I get the following error messages when trying to run the package 'arm'.
>
>> library(arm)
> Error : Functions found when exporting methods from the namespace ‘arm’
> which are not S4 generic: ‘fixef’, ‘ranef’
> Error: package/namespace load failed for ‘arm’
>
> My R version is:
>> version
>                 _
> platform       i386-w64-mingw32
> arch           i386
> os             mingw32
> system         i386, mingw32
> status
> major          2
> minor          15.2
> year           2012
> month          10
> day            26
> svn rev        61015
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
> nickname       Trick or Treat
>
> When running the install for 'arm' it looks like the install was successful
> and 'arm' shows up in my package list and has created a folder in the
> library (C:\Users\Pernille\Documents\R\win-library\2.15\arm)
>
>> install.packages("arm")
> Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Users/Pernille/Documents/R/win-library/2.15’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> trying URL '
> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/arm_1.6-01.02.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 237391 bytes (231 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 231 Kb
>
> package ‘arm’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
> I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling 'arm'. I recently updated R from
> version 2.15.0 to 2.15.2 but 'arm' ran with the same error messages in both
> versions. It has never worked on my computer. I have tried in both 64 and
> 32 bit R.
>
> Hope someone can help me, I much appreciate it!

Please run

update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE)

to update all the dependencies. Then try again.
The package passes all checks (including package loading) on CRAN:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_arm.html

Best,
Uwe Ligges






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