[R] Updating Package Fails: Help on How to Fix Needed

[William Dunlap]

stats::sigma was added to R recently.  It is is R-devel now, I don't know
about yesterday's R-3.2.3.
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/12/2015 1:44 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>>
>>     Trying to update package pbkrtest failed because of a missing object
>> in
>> another namespace. Not having experienced this issue before now I don't
>> know
>> what to do to fix the problem. Here's the story:
>>
>> * installing *source* package ‘pbkrtest’ ...
>> ** package ‘pbkrtest’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>> ** R
>> ** data
>> ** inst
>> ** preparing package for lazy loading
>> Warning: replacing previous import by ‘stats::sigma’ when loading
>> ‘pbkrtest’
>> Error : object ‘sigma’ is not exported by 'namespace:stats'
>> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘pbkrtest’
>> * removing ‘/usr/lib/R/library/pbkrtest’
>> * restoring previous ‘/usr/lib/R/library/pbkrtest’
>>
>> The downloaded source packages are in
>>         ‘/tmp/RtmppHtiuJ/downloaded_packages’
>> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
>> Making 'packages.html' ... done
>> Warning message:
>> In install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl =
>> contriburl,  :
>>     installation of package ‘pbkrtest’ had non-zero exit status
>>
>>     Advice needed.
>
>
> I don't see that.  You need to give more details:  I'd start with
> sessionInfo(), and the version number of the pbkrtest package that you're
> trying to install.  (If R is downloading it for you,
> available.packages()["pbkrtest",]  will give lots of useful information.)
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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