[R-SIG-Mac] packages, R-patched and RC [Was: Importing Excel files]

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jun 19, 2012, at 5:36 AM, peter dalgaard wrote:

> 
> On Jun 19, 2012, at 01:16 , Colstat wrote:
> 
>> I think the error says it
>> "package Œgdata‚ was built under R version 2.15.1 "
>> and you have R 2.5.10.
>> 
>> Update your R first, let me know if it doesn't work.
> 
> 2.15.1 is announced for Friday... I think it's a bit of a glitch that CRAN is already automatically providing packages for it, but you are of course more than welcome to test the prereleases (from http://R.research.att.com/).
> 
> I suppose that this comes about from building packages with R-patched, which transitions directly into the prereleases for the next version. 
> 

Yes, this is a side-effect of that. I wonder what we can do about it - I used to build packages with released versions only, but then people complained that patched had fixes for some things they needed...

Cheers,
Simon


> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Victoria Xiao <victoriayxiao at gmail.com>wrote:
>> 
>>> Exactly. Every time I try to load it from the package manager, the check
>>> mark in the check box vanishes and the status goes back to 'not loaded'. At
>>> the same time, I get this error message:
>>> 
>>> Error in loadNamespace(i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths())) :
>>> there is no package called Œgtools‚
>>> In addition: Warning message:
>>> package Œgdata‚ was built under R version 2.15.1
>>> Error: package/namespace load failed for Œgdata‚
>>> It's very perplexing. Would uninstalling and reinstalling gdata help at
>>> all?
>>> 
>>> Thanks again.
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Colstat <colstat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Looking at your output, and if you are using package 'gdata'.
>>>> Then under "Other attached packages" of your output
>>>> 
>>>> you don't have,
>>>>> gdata_2.6.2
>>>> 
>>>> Are you sure you have loaded the package correctly?  It doesn't look like
>>>> it.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Victoria Xiao <victoriayxiao at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Colstat <colstat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Victor,
>>>>>> could you type sessionInfo() in R terminal and paste here what you got?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Victoria Xiao <victoriayxiao at gmail.com
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'm trying to figure out how to import Excel files into R. I'm running
>>>>>>> Mac
>>>>>>> 10.6, and so far I've tried the xlsx and gdata packages; both gave
>>>>>>> error
>>>>>>> messages.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> For the xlsx package, here is what I got:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> library(xlsx)
>>>>>>>> project.source = "/Users/vicki/Desktop/R/test/kdReport.xls" #change
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> path and file name here
>>>>>>>> PIGF.elisa.dat = read.xlsx (file=project.source, 1, header=T)
>>>>>>> Error in .jcall("RJavaTools", "Ljava/lang/Object;", "invokeMethod", cl,
>>>>>>> : java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Your InputStream was neither an
>>>>>>> OLE2
>>>>>>> stream, nor an OOXML stream
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> For the gdata package, it said that gtools was required; when gtools
>>>>>>> package was attempted to load, this error message resulted:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Error in loadNamespace(i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths())) :
>>>>>>> there is no package called Œgtools‚
>>>>>>> In addition: Warning message:
>>>>>>> package Œgdata‚ was built under R version 2.15.1
>>>>>>> Error: package/namespace load failed for Œgdata‚
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Does anyone know how to resolve either of these error messages, or if
>>>>>>> there
>>>>>>> are better packages to interact with Excel files in R on a Mac? Thanks
>>>>>>> so
>>>>>>> much.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>> Victoria Xiao
>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>> 
>>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>> R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
>>>>> Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)
>>>>> 
>>>>> locale:
>>>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>>>> 
>>>>> attached base packages:
>>>>> [1] splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>>>>> [8] base
>>>>> 
>>>>> other attached packages:
>>>>> [1] epicalc_2.14.1.6 xlsx_0.4.2       xlsxjars_0.4.0   rJava_0.9-3
>>>>> [5] rj_1.1.0-4       nnet_7.3-1       MASS_7.3-17      survival_2.36-12
>>>>> [9] foreign_0.8-49
>>>>> 
>>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>>> [1] tools_2.15.0
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
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