[R] gpclib library

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Leonardo Lami wrote:

> my OS is Linux Debian distribution, my R vers is 2.4.0 Patched
> (2006-11-25 r39997)
>
> I tried several repositories but the output is ever the same

And you have *still* not had the courtesy to show us what it actually is 
(as asked for both by me and the posting guide). Mine starts

> install.packages("gpclib", dependencies=TRUE)
Warning in install.packages("gpclib", dependencies = TRUE) :
          argument 'lib' is missing: using ~/R/test-library
trying URL 'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/gpclib_1.4-1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-tar' length 24840 bytes
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 24Kb

* Installing *source* package 'gpclib' ...
[...]

>
> Thank yor for your help
>
> All the best
> Leonardo
>
>
> Prof Brian Ripley ha scritto:
>> It's a _package_ that you are looking for (there is something else
>> called a gpclib library, to do with GNU Pascal).
>>
>> You haven't told us your OS or R version, so we don't know what file
>> you are looking for.  But try another mirror if one appears not to
>> work (and using a US mirror with an email address in Italy seems odd).
>> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Leonardo Lami wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I'm tring to download the gpclib library but I don't find it in the old
>>> repository
>>>
>>> install.packages(c("gpclib"), dependencies=TRUE,
>>> repos="http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/")
>>> Avviso in install.packages(c("gpclib"), dependencies = TRUE, repos =
>>> "http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/") :
>>>         argument 'lib' is missing: using /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
>>
>> That's not what that message says: presumably you got some more output.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> May be my old library have some problem:
>>>
>>> library(gpclib)
>>> Errore in loadNamespace(package, c(which.lib.loc, lib.loc), keep.source
>>> = keep.source) :
>>>        in 'gpclib', metodi da esportare specificati, ma nessuno
>>> definito: show, get.bbox, plot, intersect, union, setdiff, [,
>>> append.poly, scale.poly, area.poly, get.pts, coerce
>>> Errore: caricamento pacchetto/namespace fallito per 'gpclib'
>>>
>>> Someone knows where I can find the library
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>> Leonardo
>>>
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>>
>

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