[R-SIG-Mac] can't install 'datasets' package in OS X

[David Winsemius]

On Sep 14, 2012, at 5:07 PM, C W wrote:

> Yes, I must made a mistake thinking state.abb, state.area is contained in 'state'.  But they are actually different data frame.
> 
> But why does this list have 'state' when it doesn't actually exist?

When you execute the command:

data(state)

... the interpreter loads all of those dataframes into memory.

The pages says:

"Usage

	state.abb
	state.area
	state.center
	state.division
	state.name
	state.region
	state.x77"

-- 
David.
> 
> state	US State Facts and Figures
> state.abb	US State Facts and Figures
> state.area	US State Facts and Figures
> state.center	US State Facts and Figures
> state.division	US State Facts and Figures
> state.name	US State Facts and Figures
> state.region	US State Facts and Figures
> state.x77	US State Facts and Figures
> 
> 
> Here's the link where I found it.
> http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/datasets/html/00Index.html
> 
> Yes, I was forced to reinstalled because I didn't find datasets on CRAN.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:12 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 14, 2012, at 2:09 PM, C W wrote:
> 
> > Hi list,
> > I am having some trouble using the datasets package.  The 'state' data is
> > missing.
> 
> Evidence?  (Notice there is no dataframe named "state")
> 
> state.abb (state)              US State Facts and Figures
> state.area (state)             US State Facts and Figures
> state.center (state)           US State Facts and Figures
> state.division (state)         US State Facts and Figures
> state.name (state)             US State Facts and Figures
> state.region (state)           US State Facts and Figures
> state.x77 (state)              US State Facts and Figures
> 
> 
> > So, I removed the package trying to reinstall.
> 
> Well, now you've really done it, Ollie.
> 
> >
> > What I did,
> > Package&Data > Package Installer > Get list
> >
> > No 'datasets' in the list.
> 
> Correct. Also no "stats" or "base" or "graphics".
> 
> >
> > So, I tried to install using,
> >
> >> install.packages('datasets')
> >
> > Warning message:
> >
> > package Œdatasets‚ is not available (for R version 2.15.1)
> >
> >
> > But, the documentation says it is built for 2.15.1.
> > http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/datasets/html/00Index.html
> 
> Since it is part of the base install, you may find it easiest to just reinstall R.
> 
> --
> David.
> >
> >
> >> sessionInfo()
> >
> > R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
> >
> > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-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] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     methods   base
> >
> > So, am I missing something?
> > Thanks,
> > M
> >
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> David Winsemius, MD
> Alameda, CA, USA
> 
> 

David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA