Hi Folks, A while ago (September 2007) I set up an experimental Debian 4.0 Etch installation, and installed R on it, along with several packages -- including e1071 and the "Bundle" VR -- by means of the Debian package manager. Most of the time, R works fine. But not always.
Just now, I wanted to try the code suggested by Johannes Hüsing for "Stroparia"'s Multiset Permutation question. The first line is "library(e1071)" -- this failed because: library(e1071) Loading required package: class Error: package 'class' could not be loaded In addition: Warning message: there is no package called 'class' in: library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc) The Debian package manager tells me that "r-cran-vr" is fully installed, and that "The VR package contains four individuals packages: MASS, class, nnet and spatial." Also, that the installed version of r-cran-vr is 7.2.29-1 and also that this is the latest version. However, the version on CRAN is 7.2-41. A search downwards from /usr/lib/R finds nothing that matches "class", "nnet", nor "spatial", though MASS is there. 'locate class', 'locate nnet', 'locate spatial' all draw blanks (as far as anything to do with R is concerned). So these packages, allegedly part of VR, have not been installed. I thought of uninstalling VR and re-installing, but after I marked it for deletion I was told that lots of other packages would disappear as well, so I backed off. It would seem, therefore, that installing R via the Debian repositories can be a close approximation to a waste of time! Additionally, in the past I have encountered a block when trying to install R packages from source, on this system, because something is wrong with 'gfortran'. I do not want to have to fight Debian in order to get on with using R, and (once again) feel discouraged about continuing to use a Linux distribution which, in other respects, is of high repute. I would be grateful for comments on the above observations, and particularly grateful for suggestions about how to overcome these problems. With best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 06-Apr-08 Time: 23:58:27 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
