On Sep 28, 2012, at 9:05 PM, John Maindonald wrote: > Others may be able to give a more authoritative answer. I doubt that > the method of installation was per se the difference. I installed using > the Package installer, on April 6 2012. The publication date > (2012-01-31 07:37:18) was the same as for the package that you > installed by first downloading. You may have been unlucky that > something went wrong when you installed using the Package Installer. > Or, just possibly, a different file was temporarily on CRAN when you > used the package installer. >
It think it's actually more simple than that - my guess is that Ricardo has (apparently inadvertently) installed the *source* package and not the binary which is why he got only one architecture. The Package Installer allows the user to do either depending what the user selects. Cheers, Simon > John Maindonald email: john.maindon...@anu.edu.au > phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549 > Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194, > John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27) > Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200. > http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm > > On 29/09/2012, at 10:13 AM, ricardo.julio.rodriguez.fernan...@sergas.es wrote: > >> >> Thanks Brian, thanks everybody. I think I can easily understand the >> difficulties you are speaking about: R is a huge project running in a >> massive amount of different, and from time to time, fancy environments. I is >> by no means easy to keep all packages smoothly running in all and every >> installation around the World! For me, maintaining CRAN is a big >> responsibility and of extreme difficulty! >> >> But I'm not able to understand yet what is the difference between using the >> R Package Installer (using CRAN repository as package repository), running >> in this case R Mac OS X 10.5.8 with this R installation... >> >> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) -- "Roasted Marshmallows" >> Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing >> ISBN 3-900051-07-0 >> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) >> >> And downloading XML_3.9-4.tgz from >> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/XML/index.html and installing it by >> submitting sudo R CMD INSTALL XML_3.93-0.tgz. >> >> The process using R Package Installer (CRAN binaries as repositoy) doesn't >> lead to a functional XML packages and downloading and installing it does >> lead to running XML packages both in i386 and x86_64 architectures. >> >> Sorry for asking once again, but, please, where am I lost with this issue? >> >> Thanks! >> >>> ________________________________________ >>> From: r-sig-mac-boun...@r-project.org [r-sig-mac-boun...@r-project.org] On >>> Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley [rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk] >>> Sent: 28 September 2012 09:21 >>> To: r-sig-mac@r-project.org >>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] ‘package ‘XML’ is not installed for 'arch=x86_64'’ >>> >>> With a package such as XML available from multiple repositories, you >>> have to be very precise what you are talking about. >>> >>> On CRAN, there is a source package for version 3.9-4. That can be >>> compiled for multiple architectures on a Mac, and there are such >>> binaries on CRAN. >>> >>> It only works in a UTF-8 locale, and hence there has needed to be a >>> modified version for Windows, on CRANextras. >>> >>> However, the home for XML is www.omegahat.org. There are two different >>> versions there, and neither work on Linux. (3.93-0 in the Omegahat >>> repository and http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML/XML_3.94-0.tar.gz.) >>> >>> The CRAN team have been trying for weeks to sort this out, but the XML >>> maintainer is barely responsive. >>> >>> With a CRAN build of R for MacOS, you get binary packages by default, >>> either from the command-line or from R.app. You get those of the >>> achitecture(s) which were built: this is normally both ix64 and x64_86 >>> (and perhaps ppc) but for a few tens of packages the person in charge >>> (for CRAN, Simon Urbanek) needs to set up exceptions. As packages do >>> change, sometimes the need to add an exception pops up unexpectedly. >>> >> >> On 28/09/2012 07:05, ricardo.julio.rodriguez.fernan...@sergas.es wrote: >>> Hi! >>>> ________________________________________ >>>> From: Simon Urbanek [simon.urba...@r-project.org] >>>> Sent: 28 September 2012 02:24 >>>> To: Rodriguez Fernandez, Ricardo Julio >>>> Cc: r-sig-mac@r-project.org >>>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] ‘package ‘XML’ is not installed for 'arch=x86_64'’ >>> >>>> On Sep 27, 2012, at 6:25 PM, <ricardo.julio.rodriguez.fernan...@sergas.es> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'm trying to confirm I understand how packages are installed and manage >>>>> in R to be able to better interpret error/warning messages. >>>>> >>>>> In a Mac OS X installation of R I get this error: >>>>> >>>>>> require(XML) >>>>> Loading required package: XML >>>>> Failed with error: ‘package ‘XML’ is not installed for 'arch=x86_64'’ >>>>> >>>>> But the graphical interface R Package Installer says that version 3.9-4 >>>>> is installed. >>>>> >>>> >>>> It is installed, but only for 32-bit and you are trying to load it in >>>> 64-bit R. >>>> >>>> >>>>> Please, where am I wrong? >>>> >>>> Use 32-bit R or if you want to use XML in 64-bit R, you have to compile it >>>> for 64-bit. AFAICS XML currently doesn't >>>> pass checks on any platform, so there are no binaries and you have to >>>> compile it from sources. If you want both 32-bit and 64-bit > you'll have >>>> to use --merge-multiarch INSTALL option or use the two-step process >>>> described in the Mac FAQ. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Simon >>> >>> Following other replies to this thread this is what I get here after >>> installing from the command line without switches the XML binary available >>> at CRAN... >>> >>> Package: XML >>> Version: 3.9-4 >>> ReleaseDate: 2012/01/30 >>> ... >>> Repository: CRAN >>> Date/Publication: 2012-01-31 07:37:18 >>> Built: R 2.15.0; universal-apple-darwin9.8.0; 2012-03-31 00:12:17 UTC; unix >>> Archs: i386, ppc, x86_64 >>> >>> So, it seems that i386 and x86_64 are available by installing that binary. >>> Please, what am I misunderstanding here? >>> >>> Thanks for your help! >>> >>> Ricardo >>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> sessionInfo() >>>>> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) >>>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) >>>>> >>>>> locale: >>>>> [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8 >>>>> >>>>> attached base packages: >>>>> [1] graphics grDevices utils datasets stats methods base >>>>> >>>>> other attached packages: >>>>> [1] foreign_0.8-50 >>>>> >>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >>>>> [1] tools_2.15.1 >>>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> Nota: A información contida nesta mensaxe e os seus posibles documentos >>> adxuntos é privada e confidencial e está dirixida únicamente ó seu >>> destinatario/a. 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