[R-sig-Debian] package XML does not load in R 2.15.1

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 21 July 2012 at 06:42, John Kane wrote:
| I am getting what appears to be an Unbuntu level error in trying to install the 
| XML package.

You are making your life too complicated as there is a prepackaged version:

edd at max:~$ dpkg -s r-cran-xml
Package: r-cran-xml
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: gnu-r
Installed-Size: 2363
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.6-2-1
Replaces: r-xml
Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.14.0), libc6 (>= 2.4), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
Conflicts: r-xml
Description: GNU R package for XML parsing and generation
 This package provides facilities for the R language to
 .
  * parse XML files, URLs and strings, using either the DOM (Document
    Object Model)/tree-based approach, or the event-driven SAX (Simple
    API for XML) mechanism;
  * generate XML content to buffers, files, URLs, and internal XML trees;
  * read DTDs as R objects.
Original-Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
Homepage: http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML


which works just fine:


edd at max:~$ r -e 'library(XML); print("All good")'
Loading required package: methods
Loading required package: utils
[1] "All good"
edd at max:~$ 


Dirk

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