[R] Can't resolve dependency problems with package "sem"

[Jim Lemon]

Hi Andreas,
Try installing plyr, arm, scales and mi separately. If you get an
error message about a version mismatch, that's where your problem is.
_Sometimes_ upgrading R will fix it, if the problem is that the
version you are downloading is too new for your R version.

Jim

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:51 AM, C&A Säger <saegerei at t-online.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First time user on Ubuntu 14.4 with Ubuntus R Commander and
>
>> $ R --version
>> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing"
>> Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> The program icon of the commander executes
>
>> sh -c 'R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES="$R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES Rcmdr" R "$@"'
>
> On first run it started downloading, compiling and installing various
> packages. One of them fails:
>
>>
>>> install.packages("sem",dependencies=TRUE)
>> Installing package into ‘/home/andreas/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0’
>> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>> Warnung: dependencies ‘MBESS’, ‘arm’, ‘plyr’ are not available
>> also installing the dependencies ‘scales’, ‘mi’, ‘DiagrammeR’
>>
>> versuche URL 'http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/cran/src/contrib/scales_0.4.0.tar.gz'
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 57358 bytes (56 Kb)
>> URL geöffnet
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 56 Kb
>>
>> versuche URL 'http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/cran/src/contrib/mi_1.0.tar.gz'
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 793313 bytes (774 Kb)
>> URL geöffnet
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 774 Kb
>>
>> versuche URL 'http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/cran/src/contrib/DiagrammeR_0.8.2.tar.gz'
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3532835 bytes (3.4 Mb)
>> URL geöffnet
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 3.4 Mb
>>
>> versuche URL 'http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/cran/src/contrib/sem_3.1-7.tar.gz'
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 154654 bytes (151 Kb)
>> URL geöffnet
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 151 Kb
>>
>> ERROR: dependency ‘plyr’ is not available for package ‘scales’
>> * removing ‘/home/andreas/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/scales’
>> ERROR: dependency ‘arm’ is not available for package ‘mi’
>> * removing ‘/home/andreas/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/mi’
>> ERROR: dependency ‘scales’ is not available for package ‘DiagrammeR’
>> * removing ‘/home/andreas/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/DiagrammeR’
>> ERROR: dependency ‘mi’ is not available for package ‘sem’
>> * removing ‘/home/andreas/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/sem’
>>
>> Die heruntergeladenen Quellpakete sind in
>> ‘/tmp/RtmplEqHDo/downloaded_packages’
>> Warnmeldungen:
>> 1: In install.packages("sem", dependencies = TRUE) :
>> Installation des Pakets ‘scales’ hatte Exit-Status ungleich 0
>> 2: In install.packages("sem", dependencies = TRUE) :
>> Installation des Pakets ‘mi’ hatte Exit-Status ungleich 0
>> 3: In install.packages("sem", dependencies = TRUE) :
>> Installation des Pakets ‘DiagrammeR’ hatte Exit-Status ungleich 0
>> 4: In install.packages("sem", dependencies = TRUE) :
>> Installation des Pakets ‘sem’ hatte Exit-Status ungleich 0
>
> How can I resolve the dependencies?
> Should I replace the Ubuntu version with something fresh?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Andreas
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