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

[Brian Diggs]

On 4/23/2010 2:19 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 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

Does anyone know when gtools will be updated to work with R 2.11.0? 
According to 
http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_gtools.html (as of 
2010-04-28 11:53:59) it was still throwing errors on devel, patched, and 
release.  From the check results, it seems like it should not be too 
hard of an error to fix:

 > plot.s( "d", "V1")
Error in gsub(pattern, value, body, extended = TRUE) :
unused argument(s) (extended = TRUE)
Calls: plot.s -> gsub
Execution halted

It's bothering me because gtools in somewhere at the bottom of the 
dependency tree of a package I want to use.  When it did not work when R 
2.11.0 was first released, I thought I'd give it a few days to be fixed, 
but it has been almost a week so I thought I'd bring this up again.

> 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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>>
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>>

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Brian Diggs
Senior Research Associate, Department of Surgery, Oregon Health & 
Science University