[R-SIG-Mac] RE: R.matlab

[Henrik Bengtsson]

[Sorry if this is a repost, but I got an odd error message previously trying
to reply to 'r-sig-mac-request at stat.math.ethz.ch']

Hi. I (the author) got a similar problem report two weeks ago and it was
also from a person running R v2.0.0 on Mac OS X. I do not have access to
this system so unfortunately I cannot troubleshoot it myself. 

The solution that worked for this person was to download the bundle manually

http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/R.classes_0.55.tar.gz

and run

R CMD INSTALL R.classes_0.55.tar.gz

from the system's command prompt.

Does this work? 

If it does, it is a good starting point for troubleshooting. The problem
seems to be that R.oo is not available (==installed) when it tries to
install R.audio, which depends on R.oo. I'm not 100% sure from your log
(below), if R tried (failed, succeeded?) to install the R.oo package first,
and then tried to install R.audio (your error message), or if it starts with
R.audio first. 

Have someone else on the R-SIG-Mac list experienced this? Try

install.packages("R.classes", contriburl="http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R")

Currently, it seems to me that this is a OSX problem only (based on sample
size n=2). If not, I will check with the r-devel list.

Best wishes

Henrik Bengtsson


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Weisz [mailto:Nathan.Weisz at uni-konstanz.de] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 5:22 PM
> To: r-sig-mac-request at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Cc: hb at maths.lth.se
> Subject: R.matlab
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> one of my favourite packages for R is R.matlab which comes with 
> R.classes (from Henrik Bengtsson). After upgrading to R 2.0 
> on Mac OS X 
> I attempted to reinstall this package with: 
> install.packages("R.classes", 
> contriburl="http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R")
> as described on this webpage: 
> http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/R.classes/
> At the end of the installation I get ugly error messages 
> (pasted at end 
> of email). Calling R.matlab shows me that it's not installed.
>  > library(R.matlab)
> Error in library(R.matlab) : There is no package called 'R.matlab'
> 
> Does any one have any hints how to get this working?
> 
> Best,
> Nathan
> 
> 
> 
> -----UGLY ERROR MESSAGES-----
> * Installing *source* package 'R.audio' ...
> ** R
> ** data
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> Loading required package: R.oo
> Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : The R.oo package is 
> missing. In addition: Warning message: There is no package 
> called 'R.oo' in: library(package, character.only = 
> TRUE, logical = TRUE, warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts, 
> Execution halted
> ** Removing '/Users/nathan/Library/R/library/R.oo'
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'R.audio'
> ** Restoring previous '/Users/nathan/Library/R/library/R.oo'
> ** Removing '/Users/nathan/Library/R/library/R.audio'
> ** Restoring previous '/Users/nathan/Library/R/library/R.audio'
> ** Removing '/Users/nathan/Library/R/library/R.basic'
> ** Removing '/Users/nathan/Library/R/library/R.colors'
> ** Removing '/Users/nathan/Library/R/library/R.graphics'
> ** Removing '/Users/nathan/Library/R/library/R.io'
> ** Removing '/Users/nathan/Library/R/library/R.lang'
> ** Removing '/Users/nathan/Library/R/library/R.matlab'
> ** Removing '/Users/nathan/Library/R/library/R.ui'
> 
> Delete downloaded files (y/N)?
> The packages are in /tmp/Rtmp1305/Rinstdir10d63af1
> Warning messages:
> 1: argument 'lib' is missing: using 
> /Users/nathan/Library/R/library in: 
> install.packages("R.classes", contriburl = 
> "http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R")
> 2: Installation of package R.classes had non-zero exit status in: 
> install.packages("R.classes", contriburl = 
> "http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R")
>  > install.packages("R.oo", 
> contriburl="http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R")
> trying URL `http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/PACKAGES'
> Content type `application/octet-stream' length 257 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 257 bytes
> 
> Warning messages:
> 1: argument 'lib' is missing: using 
> /Users/nathan/Library/R/library in: 
> install.packages("R.oo", contriburl = 
> "http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R")
> 2: No package "R.oo" on CRAN. in: download.packages(pkgs, destdir = 
> tmpd, available = available, 
>   
> 
>