[R] Can not install fCalendar package under R 2.6.2

[Yan Wang]

Dear Prof Brian Ripley and other R guru:
   Very happy to receive your help. Actually what I use is 262.73. In 
detail, what I have been doing is the following:
   First I have a not-up-to-dated R 2.4.0 under ubuntu 7.04, then I tried 
to install fCalendar(what I really want to use is fGarch, but it depends 
on fCalendar), I use install.packages to do it, so the fCalendar packages 
I had downloaded is up to dated 262.73(I also have checked it to make 
sure), then R reported a strange error, saying it found a syntax error-a 
parse error at line 122 and 123 something. It's a pity I did not copy that
down. Then I found that my R is old, so I upgraded it to 2.6.2 with apt-get
and tried it again. The situation improved, it did not say it has difficulty
parsing any more, but it reported the error I have posted.

   Another thing is that I have a R 2.5.1 under windows, yesterday I tried 
to use install.packages to install fCalendar under it, and everything 
worked smoothly, it was a success, no problem whatsoever.

   As a common R user, I am not capable of debugging it. I hope R gurus 
like prof Brian Ripley could have a closer look at my problem.

   Thanks a lot!

Yan Wang
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

E-mail address:   ywang67 at isye.gatech.edu

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> I suspect you have a rather old version of the fCalendar package (or possibly 
> of one of the packages it loads).  The current version is 262.73 and does not 
> use putenv or Sys.putenv.
>
> (Packages really should not be using global system settings but the current 
> version does
>
>> .currentYear
> function ()
> {
>    TZ <- Sys.getenv("TZ")
>    if (TZ[[1]] != "GMT") {
>        Sys.setenv(TZ = "GMT")
>        on.exit(Sys.setenv(TZ = TZ))
>    }
>    as.POSIXlt(Sys.time())$year + 1900
> }
>
> whereas as.POSIXlt has a 'tz' argument.  I also don't see the point of 
> recording the current year *when the package is installed*: a comment says 
> this is done in '.Firstlib' but it is not done in .First.lib.)
>
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Yan Wang wrote:
>
>> Dear R helper:
>> When I was trying to install the fCalendar package, R report the
>> following error and then my installation failed:
>> 
>> * Installing *source* package 'fCalendar' ...
>> ** R
>> ** inst
>> ** preparing package for lazy loading
>> Loading required package: MASS
>> Loading required package: fEcofin
>> Loading required package: fUtilities
>> Loading required package: RUnit
>>
>>  RUnit 0.4.17 loaded.
>> Loading required package: spatial
>> Loading required package: tcltk
>> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
>> Loading required package: zoo
>> Error in .Internal(putenv(x)) : no internal function "putenv"
>> Calls: <Anonymous> ... sys.source -> eval -> eval -> .currentYear ->
>> Sys.setenv
>> Execution halted
>> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'fCalendar'
>> ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/fCalendar'
>> 
>> by the way, my system is Ubuntu 7.04,
>> platform       i486-pc-linux-gnu
>> arch           i486
>> os             linux-gnu
>> system         i486, linux-gnu
>> 
>> I tried to look for  putenv myself, R reported that it is a deprecated
>> function in "base" package, I loaded the "base" package and still end up
>> with the same Error report.
>
> It is Sys.putenv that is deprecated.  The internal function putenv went in R 
> 2.5.0.
>
>> Pls do help me.
>> 
>> Yan Wang
>> Georgia Institute of Technology
>> School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
>> 
>> E-mail address:   ywang67 at isye.gatech.edu
>> 
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