[R] Help needed with successfully downloading and opening Agricolae package

[David Winsemius]

> On May 6, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>> I am puzzled why the original install.packages call did not also download
>> the sp package, since the default argument dependencies = NA should have
>> triggered installation of imports including spDep, which should in turn have
>> installed the dependencies including the sp package. Anyone have a theory?

I think you need to set dependencies=TRUE to make the checks recursive.

-- 
David.

> 
> Any hypothesis would require more information, sessionInfo() at a very minimum.
> 
> 
>> --
>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>> 
>> On May 6, 2016 12:47:44 PM PDT, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> This is a plain-text email list, so your red doesn't show up, but
>>> since the error message said that the installer couldn't find the sp
>>> package, I'd start by installing that.
>>> 
>>> Sarah
>>> 
>>> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Phillips,Douglas A <dal64372 at ufl.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi, I just downloaded the Agricolae package and tried to access it using
>>>> the commands listed below (and received the error messages in red).  Any
>>>> suggestions on resolving these errors?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for your assistance.
>>>> 
>>>> Doug
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> install.packages("agricolae")
>>>> 
>>>>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
>>>> Current
>>>>                                  Dload
>>>> Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
>>>>   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
>>>> 0  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
>>>> 0100  896k  100  896k    0     0   900k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
>>>> 900k
>>>> 
>>>> The downloaded binary packages are in
>>>> 
>>>> /var/folders/qn/8tc0v1m971d361gv0mwsmxj80000gn/T//RtmpYMZ97k/downloaded_packages
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> library(agricolae)
>>>> 
>>>> Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck =
>>>> vI[[i]]) :
>>>>   there is no package called ‘sp’
>>>> Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘agricolae’
>>>> 
>>>>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>> 
>>> 
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David Winsemius
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