[R] MASS

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Robert John wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed R-1.5.0-1 on Red Hat Linux 7.2, but the package MASS
> is "missing". Attempting to load via library(MASS) returns the following
> error:
>
> Error in library(MASS) : There is no package called `MASS'
>
> Am I missing something simple here?

You forgot to install R-1.5.0.recommended.tgz or the equivalent rpm.
The guidelines do say that this should be included in binary
distributions, but it seems the Linux packagers do things differently.


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