[R] packages gdata / gtools - installation in R 2.11.0

[Uwe Ligges]

Right, unfortunately package gtools does not pass the checks under 
R-2.11.0 and hence is not distributed as a binary via CRAN.

Either convince the maintainer (CCing Greg) to fix the bug or try to 
install the package yourself from sources (and fix the bug yourself, if 
it matters for you).

Best wishes,
Uwe Ligges


On 22.04.2010 16:32, Paulo Barata wrote:
>
> Dear R-list members,
>
> I have just downloaded R version 2.11.0. Then I installed
> package gdata. At the end of the installation, a warning message
> said that package gtools could not be found. Package gdata
> was, after the installation, included in the "Package Index"
> in the help files. Messages during installation (which was made
> through the menu Packages / Instal package(s), choosing the Austria
> site, R running on Windows XP):
>
> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
> Warning: dependency ‘gtools’ is not available
> trying URL 'http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib
> /2.11/gdata_2.7.1.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 830646 bytes (811 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 811 Kb
> package 'gdata' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
> When I tried to use (in R 2.11.0) package gdata and its function
> write.fwf, I got the messages below:
>
> library(gdata)
> Error in loadNamespace(i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths())) :
> there is no package called 'gtools'
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'gdata'
> write.fwf(x,'test-01.txt')
> Error: could not find function "write.fwf"
> (** Note: x is a data frame **)
>
> Package gdata is correctly installed in my R 2.10.1, and both
> packages gdata and gtools appear in the list of available packages
> when I try to install some package in R 2.10.1 through the menu
> Packages / Instal package(s), choosing the Austria site.
>
> But when I try to install some package in R 2.11.0 through the
> menu, only package gdata appears in the list of available packages
> - package gtools does not appear in that list.
>
> Both packages are listed on the CRAN (Austria) package Web page.
>
> It seems that R 2.11.0 is somehow not "seeing" the package gtools.
> Is there any way around this situation? How to correctly install
> package gdata (which depends on gtools) in R 2.11.0?
>
> Both R 2.10.1 and R 2.11.0 are running on Windows XP, in the same
> computer.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Paulo Barata
>
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