On Apr 7, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Joseph Kunkel wrote:
Marc,
I had the same problem
It does not sound like the same problem unless you only mean that it
also involves difficulties with installing a package.
with another library while trying to download it in the R-Package
Installer of R for Mac OS X GUI. I was installing the fields
library which needed to also load a dependency library which would
not load and was not in the 'Cran binary' list. The library of
course would not work without the dependency. However when I looked
in the lists available under Get List button the option 'Other
Repository' had the needed library. I loaded it and the fields
function that needed the dependency library worked. I am not sure
this is a temporary fix or whether all dependencies that might
automatically be loaded will be brought into the combined 'Cran
binary' list. I guess this might be a R OS X GUI issue?
R does not check for the existence of other R package dependencies (or
for the existence of external libraries) at the time of installing a
binary package. If I understand you correctly that is what you did. It
would not have anything to do with the Mac GUI. If you compile from
source there is an effort to load the package after compilation.
Missing dependencies would necessarily show up at that stage. The GUI
package installer does have a checkbox to "Install Dependencies" and I
assume you would have gotten an informative error message had you used
that checkbox.
I do not know if the `install.packages` command would allow you to
specify multiple repositories in which to search if you had set
dependencies=TRUE in the call. The help page says 'repos' needs to be
a character vector, so maybe it would succeed. I would not have
expected the GUI installer to be able to do that in its current
incarnation.
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David.
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Joseph G. Kunkel, Research Professor
Center for Land-Sea Interactions
Marine Science Center
University of New England
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Biddeford ME 04005
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On Apr 7, 2013, at 6:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Re: maptools in R 3.0.0 (Steve Lianoglou)
David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA
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