[R] Annoying startup error message

[Sarah Goslee]

Perhaps you at one point added it to your .RProfile so the package is
loaded at startup. You can check by starting R from the command line
with
R --vanilla
which doesn't load any of the profile files.

https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/Startup.html

Sarah

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Lars Bishop <lars52r at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Ulrik. I actually don't want to install SparkR, just don't want
> to have that error message when R starts. For some reason, R is trying to
> load the package every time it starts...
>
> Thanks
> Lars.
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.stervbo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Lars,
>>
>> The error tells you that SparkR is not installed.
>>
>> I believe you can install it like this:
>>
>> library(devtools)
>> install_github("amplab-extras/SparkR-pkg", subdir="pkg")
>>
>> I took it from https://github.com/amplab-extras/SparkR-pkg and I haven't
>> tried it myself.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Ulrik
>>
>> On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 at 17:40 Lars Bishop <lars52r at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Just installed R version 3.2.3, and I'm getting the error message below
>>> every time I start R. I had SparkR installed in the prior version. I
>>> googled this problem, but didn;t find anything useful.
>>>
>>> Any help would be very appreciated.
>>>
>>> Error in library(SparkR) : there is no package called ‘SparkR’
>>> [R.app GUI 1.66 (7060) x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0]
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Lars.
>>>