[R-sig-Geo] warning and error message when dowloading/installing package'sp'

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Luis Ridao Cruz wrote:

> R-sig-geo help,
> 
> I'm trying to install 'sp' package from the repositories
> and I get the following message:

Mirrors do have outages from time to time. The Norwegian mirror seems to 
be up, the Danish mirror took a fair time to respond, and the German one 
you used isn't responding for me. Note that the current release of sp is 
sp_0.9-7.

Roger

> 
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://pangora.org/cran/bin/windows/contrib/2.4 
> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available =
> available,  : 
>          no package 'sp' at the repositories
> 
> I used CRAN mirrors in Denmark and Germany
> 
> It works fine to install it from local zip (sp_0.8-9.zip) file but when
> loading
> the package with library(sp) an error message comes up:
> 
> Error in loadNamespace(package, c(which.lib.loc, lib.loc), keep.source
> = keep.source) : 
>         in 'sp' methods for export not found: bbox, coordinates,
> coordinates<-, coordnames, coordnames<-, gridded, polygons, polygons<-,
> dimensions, [, transform, overlay, plot, recenter, spplot, spsample,
> summary
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'sp'
> 
> 
> Is anyone experiencing this problem?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> > version
>                _                           
> platform       i386-pc-mingw32             
> arch           i386                        
> os             mingw32                     
> system         i386, mingw32               
> status                                     
> major          2                           
> minor          4.1                         
> year           2006                        
> month          12                          
> day            18                          
> svn rev        40228                       
> language       R                           
> version.string R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
> 
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Roger Bivand
Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of
Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen,
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