Hi,
I installed "circular" package and I wanted to load it automatically
when R starts up, so I added the following lines in file
Rprofile.site,
.First <- function()
library(circular)
When R starts up, it gives me the following error:
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Loading required package: boot
Loading required package: graphics
Loading required package: stats
Error : .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for 'circular', details:
call: fun(libname, pkgname)
error: could not find function "packageDescription"
Error: package/namespace load failed for ‘circular’
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What's surprising is that instead of loading "circular" from the
Rprofile.site, if I run R and load this package
> library(circular)
it works fine and gives me the following message:
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Loading required package: boot
Package 'circular', 0.4-3 (2011-07-18). Type 'help(Circular)' for
summary information.
Please report any bugs or comments to <Claudio Agostinelli> clau...@unive.it
The package redefine how function 'var' and 'sd' works
In particular, (try 'methods(var)' and 'methods(sd)')
notice that 'var.default' ('sd.default')is an alias for the original
'var' ('sd') function
and that a method for data.frame is available.
Attaching package: ‘circular’
The following object(s) are masked from ‘package:stats’:
sd, var
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I am puzzled as to why there are different responses to the same
command? FYI, I am running R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) on Windows 7,
i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
I have other installed packages, which load up fine from the
Rprofile.site at R startup. The error seems to occur only with
"circular".
Ved
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