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

[John Kane]

I am makingmy life too complicated?

I must be misunderstanding something

john at john-K53U:~$ dpkg -s r-cran-xml
Package `r-cran-xml' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

Should I be installing this rather than the XML package (which seems to be installed.

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: edd at debian.org
> Sent: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:48:56 -0500
> To: jrkrideau at inbox.com
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] package XML does not load in R 2.15.1
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> --
> Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com

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