fMultivar functions not loading under R-2.7

[Yohan Chalabi]

>>>> "TVR" == "Theodore Van Rooy" <theodore.vanrooy at gmail.com>
>>>> on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:53:11 -0600

   TVR> I've been using R-2.4 with Rmetrics successfuly for a year or two.
   TVR> 
   TVR> I recently moved to Ubuntu Linux 8.04, loaded R via apt-get install R-base
   TVR> etc. etc...
   TVR> 
   TVR> then in the R interface i ran install.packages("fMultivar"), chose the CRAN
   TVR> mirror and it loaded fMultivar and all the required dependecies.
   TVR> 
   TVR> However, when I try to run the same code which makes use of the indicator
   TVR> calculators (emaTA etc.) I get this warning:
   TVR> 
   TVR> Error: could not find function "fMultivar.emaTA"
   TVR> 
   TVR> upon further inspection looking at the available functions for fMultivar
   TVR> 
   TVR> > listFunctions(fMultivar)  
   TVR>  [1] "contour.gridData"     "dcauchy2d"            "delliptical2d"
   TVR>  [4] ".delliptical2dSlider" "density2d"            "dmvsnorm"
   TVR>  [7] "dmvst"                "dnorm2d"              ".dnorm2d"
   TVR> [10] "dt2d"                 ".First.lib"           ".gfunc2d"
   TVR> [13] "grid2d"               "gridData"             "hexBinning"
   TVR> [16] "hist2d"               "integrate2d"          "mvFit"
   TVR> [19] ".mvsnormFit"          ".mvsnormPlot"         ".mvsnorm.plot.1"
   TVR> [22] ".mvsnorm.plot.1A"     ".mvsnorm.plot.1B"     ".mvsnorm.plot.2"
   TVR> [25] ".mvsnorm.plot.3"      ".mvsnorm.plot.4"      ".mvsnorm.plot.5"
   TVR> [28] ".mvstFit"             ".mvstPlot"            ".mvst.plot.1"
   TVR> [31] ".mvst.plot.1A"        ".mvst.plot.1B"        ".mvst.plot.2"
   TVR> [34] ".mvst.plot.3"         ".mvst.plot.4"         ".mvst.plot.5"
   TVR> [37] "pcauchy2d"            "persp.gridData"       "plot.fMV"
   TVR> [40] "plot.hexBinning"      "plot.squareBinning"   "pmvsnorm"
   TVR> [43] "pmvst"                "pnorm2d"              ".pnorm2d"
   TVR> [46] "pt2d"                 "rcauchy2d"            "rmvsnorm"
   TVR> [49] "rmvst"                "rnorm2d"              ".rnorm2d"
   TVR> [52] "rt2d"                 "show.fMV"             "squareBinning"
   TVR> [55] "summary.fMV"          ".TInt"                ".TOwen"
   TVR> 
   TVR> shows that none of the indicators previously available under R-2.4 are
   TVR> available.
   TVR> 
   TVR> Is this just a setting somehere in R that I need to enable?  In Linux
   TVR> maybe?  Do I need to update the packages maybe?  I'm using fMultivar version
   TVR> 260.72.
   TVR> 
   TVR> Thanks in advance
   TVR> Theo

Since 2.4 we have reorganized the packages and some function have moved
to new packages. 

you can load all packages with library("Rmetrics") and search which
package has the function you need.

regards,
Yohan

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