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

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Jun 19 23:29:18 CEST 2012 

On 19/06/2012 17:35, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> 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...

We could simply not update the version of R-patched used during the 
beta/RC periods: they are after all only about 10 days.

> 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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>>>>>>>>
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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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