[R-SIG-Mac] problem loading ggplot2 package

[Mick McQuaid]

I concur with the "skip right to #2" having installed
ggplot2 many times on Mac OS X from Tiger to Snow Leopard
and never seen anything remotely like this.

... regarding a message from peter linsley on Mar 04:
> Thanks,
> 
> p
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Mar 4, 2011, at 7:29 AM, Ben Bond-Lamberty <bpbond at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > I see you've posted this question in a bunch of other places, with no
> > luck? Two suggestions: 1) post this question to the ggplot2 listserv,
> > and 2) clean out R and all your installed packages--start fresh, and
> > reinstall. Personally I'd skip right to #2, even though it's a bit of
> > a pain.
> >
> > Ben
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:19 AM, linsleys <linsleys at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> I'm having trouble loading ggplot2 using R version 2.12.1, as shown
> >> below. I can't seem to find a relevant post that fixes my problem. Any
> >> help would be very much appreciated. Thanks,
> >>
> >> peter l
> >>
> >>> install.packages('ggplot2', dep = TRUE)
> >> trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.12/ggplot2_0.8.9.tgz'
> >> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2481399 bytes (2.4 Mb)
> >> opened URL
> >> =================================================
> >> downloaded 2.4 Mb
> >>
> >>
> >> The downloaded packages are in
> >>    /var/folders/XF/XF0tU7gdGTeF4Th7KhKYDk+++TI/-Tmp-//RtmpFMnqLB/downloaded_packages
> >>> library(ggplot2)
> >> Error in assign(names[i], dots[[i]], env = envir) :
> >>  invalid first argument
> >> Error : unable to load R code in package 'ggplot2'
> >> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'ggplot2'
> >>
> >> sessionInfo() R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16) Platform:
> >> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) locale: [1]
> >> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base
> >> packages: [1] grid stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods [8]
> >> base other attached packages: [1] proto_0.3-8 reshape_0.8.4 plyr_1.4
> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tcltk_2.12.2
> >> tools_2.12.2
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Peter and Leslie Linsley
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