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

[Uwe Ligges]

On 28.04.2010 17:57, Brian Diggs wrote:
> 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.



Given the maintainer has nit yet reacted, we will be preparing a non 
maintainer update shortly.

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