[R] Updating Rcpp package when it is claimed by dplyr

[Jeff Newmiller]

Be sure to not put a space between the "---" and the "vanilla".
-- 
Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

On February 2, 2018 1:35:07 PM PST, Patrick Connolly <p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>On Fri, 02-Feb-2018 at 10:25AM +0100, peter dalgaard wrote:
>
>|> Or, to avoid accusing you of lying. what you think is "vanilla"
>|> probably isn't. What exactly did you do? On Unix-likes, I would do
>|> something like this
>
>|> echo
>'options(repos=list(CRAN="cran.r-project.org"));install.packages("Rcpp")'
>| R --vanilla
>|> 
>|> (or maybe https://cloud.r-project.org is better...)
>
>Thanks for the suggestion.  
>
>I simply did 
>R -- vanilla
>
>I tried it again this morning so that I could compare the output.
>However, it *worked* fine -- just as I thought it would done
>yesterday.  Why it didn't work yesterday is a mystery.
>
>I've had a few other things behaving strangely on this machine so
>there might be an OS issue, not an R issue.
>
>Thanks for taking the time.
>
>Patrick
>
>|> 
>|> -pd
>|> 
>|> 
>|> 
>|> > On 2 Feb 2018, at 08:15 , Jeff Newmiller
><jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us> wrote:
>|> > 
>|> > Your last statement is extremely unlikely to be true. The dplyr
>package should not be present in a vanilla environment, so there should
>be no such conflict. 
>|> > -- 
>|> > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>|> > 
>|> > On February 1, 2018 11:00:01 PM PST, Patrick Connolly
><p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>|> >> When i  tried to install the hunspell package, I got this error
>|> >> message:
>|> >> 
>|> >> Error: package ‘Rcpp’ 0.12.3 was found, but >= 0.12.12 is
>required by
>|> >> ‘hunspell’
>|> >> 
>|> >> So I set about installing a new version of Rcpp but I get this
>message:
>|> >> 
>|> >> Error in unloadNamespace(pkg_name) : 
>|> >> namespace ‘Rcpp’ is imported by ‘dplyr’ so cannot be unloaded
>|> >> 
>|> >> How does one get around that?  I tried installing Rcpp in a
>vanilla
>|> >> session but the result was the same.
>|> >> 
>|> >> TIA
>|> >> Patrick
>|> >> 
>|> >> 
>|> >>> sessionInfo()
>|> >> R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30)
>|> >> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>|> >> Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
>|> >> 
>|> >> Matrix products: default
>|> >> BLAS: /home/pat/local/R-3.4.3/lib/libRblas.so
>|> >> LAPACK: /home/pat/local/R-3.4.3/lib/libRlapack.so
>|> >> 
>|> >> locale:
>|> >> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
>|> >> [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.UTF-8    
>|> >> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.UTF-8   
>|> >> [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
>|> >> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
>|> >> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       
>|> >> 
>|> >> attached base packages:
>|> >> [1] utils     stats     grDevices graphics  methods   base     
>|> >> 
>|> >> other attached packages:
>|> >> [1] lattice_0.20-35
>|> >> 
>|> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>|> >> [1] compiler_3.4.3 magrittr_1.5   R6_2.1.2       assertthat_0.1
>|> >> parallel_3.4.3
>|> >> [6] tools_3.4.3    DBI_0.3.1      dplyr_0.4.3    Rcpp_0.12.3   
>|> >> grid_3.4.3    
>|> >> 
>|> >> 
>|> >> -- 
>|> >>
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>|> -- 
>|> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
>|> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
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