[R-SIG-Mac] packages will not load

[Simon Urbanek]

On Mar 20, 2009, at 11:47 , Gareth Janacek wrote:

> No joy I fear.  I am contemplating deleting R on my machine and ding  
> a clean install of R. Have you any words of wisdom or warning ( I  
> see my next class Monday am )

I would probably recommend that - given that both messages read the  
same. You can also try to see what's really breaking (e.g. via  
options(error=recover)) and why. Also trying a different mirror can  
often help if the mirror is broken. Finally, if you want us to be of  
more substantial help, please don't forget to post sessionInfo() as we  
kindly ask you and in this case .libPaths() as well.

Cheers,
Simon


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> On 20 Mar 2009, at 15:16, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
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>> On Mar 20, 2009, at 10:43 , Gareth Janacek wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have the nagging feeling I should know what to do but in reality I
>>> am quite stuck.  Any help will be welcomed with gratitude!
>>>
>>>
>>> I am trying to add some packages to my version of R running Tiger on
>>> an intel Mac . The packages I want have decided to stop being loaded
>>> so I ungraded to 2.8.1 from 2.8.0
>>> However I  have the same problem:
>>> I get the packages from the CRAN mirror that is fine. I then try and
>>> use the packages manager I get for BHH2
>>>
>>
>> Please check your .libPaths() that you don't have multiple versions  
>> of those packages around - possibly from an older version of R.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Error in library(BHH2) : .First.lib failed for 'BHH2'
>>> Error in match(fullName, search()) : element 1 is empty;
>>>    the part of the args list of ':' being evaluated was:
>>>    (s, n)
>>>
>>> DAAG - which used to install  now gives
>>>
>>> Error in match(fullName, search()) : element 1 is empty;
>>>    the part of the args list of ':' being evaluated was:
>>>    (s, n)
>>> Error in library(DAAG) : .First.lib failed for 'DAAG'
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Some packages e.g. MASS load without problems.
>>>
>>> I realise this is probably some idiocy on my part but can't work out
>>> what.
>>>
>>> PS.   I have had similar problems on  my G4 laptop
>>>
>>> Gareth Janacek
>>> 01603 591206
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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> Gareth Janacek
> 01603 591206
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