fCalendar 262.73 install error

[Cyril Vaclav]

Hi Yohan,

you were right with the package. The problem was in fUtilities. I'm
not sure with the rest. 

I checked the installed.packeges() output and realized that
fUtilities had built   2.4.0 or 2.4.1. Hence I reinstalled fUtilities the
built field had changed to 2.6.2 and the problem with fCalendar disappeared. 
 See the report blow.


I do not know what exactly happend if someone change the built or I
installed the fUtilities under previous version of R (I doubt that it might
have an effect but I'm not expert). 


thx

Cyril Vaclav


> install.packages('fUtilities')
trying URL
> 'http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/fUtilities_260.72.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 90562 bytes (88 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 88 Kb

* Installing *source* package 'fUtilities' ...
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Loading required package: RUnit

 RUnit 0.4.17 loaded.
Loading required package: MASS
Loading required package: spatial
Loading required package: tcltk
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
Loading required package: zoo
** help
 >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'fUtilities'
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** building package indices ...
* DONE (fUtilities)

The downloaded packages are in
        /tmp/RtmpmpJZAd/downloaded_packages
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'





On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:24:20PM +0200, Yohan Chalabi wrote:
> >>>> "CV" == vacko at mail.kotelna.sk (Cyril Vaclav)
> >>>> on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:07:11 +0200
> 
> 
>    CV> I tried to install fCalendar version 262.73 on gentoo 2.6.18
>    CV> and  R 2.6.2
>    CV> It did not worked very well. You can see the error below. I
>    CV> know that similar
>    CV> problem named as "[R] Can not install fCalendar package
>    CV> under R 2.6.2" was already posted on 22 Mar
>    CV> 2008.
>    CV> 
>    CV> In that case the solution was to switch to windows OS. It
>    CV> is definitely not my
>    CV> case.
>    CV> 
>    CV> Can anyone give me guide how to debug the problem. I tried
>    CV> to run the
>    CV> function .currentYear and it did work. The command Sys.setenv
>    CV> exist and works.
>    CV> I could not determine where from comes the connection
>    CV> sys.source -> eval -> eval -> .currentYear -> Sys.setenv
>    CV> given in the error messege.
>    CV> 
>    CV> thx
>    CV> 
>    CV> Cyril Vaclav
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Cyril,
> 
> I could not reproduce your problem on my debian box. But after a quick
> check, the problem might come from the fUtilities package.
> 
> Sys.putenv was depreciated after 2.4.1 and replaced by Sys.setenv. We
> try as much as possible to be backward compatible and we need sometimes
> to play with the different versions of R.
> 
> If you download the source package of fUtilities 260.72, you will find
> in file fUtilites/R/BasicExtensions.R the code which might create your
> problem:
> 
> if (!exists("Sys.setenv"))
> {
>     Sys.setenv =
>     function(...)
>     {
>         x <- list(...)
>         nm <- names(x)
>         val <- as.character(unlist(x))
>         x <- paste(nm, val, sep = "=")
>         invisible(.Internal(putenv(x)))
>     }
> }
> 
> You could comment this section out and compile the modified package.
> 
> Please let me know if it solves your issue.
> 
> hope this help,
> Yohan
> 
> 
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