On 6 April 2008 at 23:58, (Ted Harding) wrote: | 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)
Looks like you may want to file a bug report against the corresponding Debian package which be out of sync or requiring a rebuild. I'm CCing the maintainer of that pacage too. | | 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. You made a choice of picking Debian etch for stability. This means packages will not be updated _by design and your choice_. So you cannot turn around and say 'how come the VR version is behind CRAN?'. For Debian unstable and testing (sid and lenny, IIRC) we have current versions. | 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 have them below /usr/lib/R as you'd expect, but I ran testing. Maybe something happened. I'd reinstall the package. | 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. Just re-install by hand to test. Download the ,deb to /tmp and do 'sudo dpkg --install r-cran-vr_*.deb' on it. | 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. Many people are happy users of R and Debian. Why don;t you bring your questions to the r-sig-debian list where they are most on-topic? Hth, Dirk | 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 ------------------------------ | | ______________________________________________ | [email protected] 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. -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
