[R] Unbundling gregmisc (was: loading gap package)

[Warnes, Gregory R]

Let me redirect the topic a bit.  I've been considering unbundling gregmisc.
The pro would be that people would find the component packages (i.e. gdata)
more easily.  The con is that the packages have a number of
interdependencies, so you pretty much will need to get most of them anyway.

As the latest gregmisc bundle contains a gregmisc package that is just a
stub that depends on and loads the individual packages, there would still be
a gregmisc object.

Comments?

-Greg

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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Constantinos
> Antoniou
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 6:36 AM
> To: Prof Brian Ripley
> Cc: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; Uwe Ligges
> Subject: Re: [R] loading gap package
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> On 4 ÎœÎ±ÏŠ 2005, at 12:06 ÂµÂµ, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 4 May 2005, Constantinos Antoniou wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On 4 Å“Â±ÃŠ 2005, at 11:35 Ã€Â¼, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> >>
> >>> Eduwin Pakpahan wrote:
> >>>> Dear R users, I did install R. 2.0.1, and try to load "gap"
> 
> >>>> package. However, below is the message shown when I did load it.
> 
> >>>> Can anybody
> >>>> please let me know my mistakes?
> >>>> ----
> >>>>> library()
> >>>>> library(gap)
> >>>> Loading required package: MASS Loading required package: genetics
> 
> >>>> Loading required package: combinat Loading required 
> package: gdata
> 
> >>>> Error: package 'gdata' could not be loaded
> >>>> In addition: Warning message: There is no package called 'gdata'
> 
> >>>> in: library(pkg, character.only =
> >>>> TRUE, logical = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc)
> >>>> ----
> >>> Let me read the error message for you:
> >>> "There is no package 'gdata'" simply means the package is not
> 
> >>> there...
> >>> So what about installing it?
> >>> Hint: it is part of the package bundle "gregmisc".
> >>
> >> I have a similar problem with R 2.1.0 on Mac OSX 10.3.9.
> >>
> >>> library(gregmisc)
> >> Loading required package: gdata
> >> Error: package 'gdata' could not be loaded
> >> In addition: Warning message:
> >> there is no package called 'gdata' in: library(pkg, 
> character.only =
> 
> >> TRUE, logical = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc)
> >>
> >> At first I tried getting this gdata from somewhere else, 
> but I could
> 
> >> not find it (evidence indicated that it is part of the 
> gregmisc, as I
> 
> >> suspected originally... You email confirms this...)
> >>
> >> (For the record, my goal is to get read.xls, which is part (?) of
> 
> >> gdata)
> >
> > The current version of gregmisc is 2.0.6.  That does contain gdata. 
> 
> > It looks to me as if the MacOS X binary is broken (2kb) so you will
> 
> > need to install from the sources.
> >
> 
> Thank you. I had the current  version (binary). Reinstalling from
> 
> source fixed the issue....
> 
> Costas
> 
> > I think we have been here before: it seems the MacOS X binary
> 
> > packaging does not work for bundles.
> >
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