From nalimilan at club.fr  Wed Oct 26 12:49:16 2011
From: nalimilan at club.fr (Milan Bouchet-Valat)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:49:16 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Error message library()
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Le mercredi 26 octobre 2011 ? 09:46 +0000, ONKELINX, Thierry a ?crit :
> Dear all,
> 
> When one tries to load a non-installed package you get the error: 
> 
> Error in library(xyz) : there is no package called 'xyz'
> 
> I noticed on several occasions that this puzzles beginners. Therefore
> I suggest to change the error description in:
> 
> Error in library(xyz) : there is no package called 'xyz' installed on
> this machine. Check the name of the package or use
> install.packages("xyz") to install it.
Couldn't R even directly ask for installing if it exists on CRAN? Like:
Error in library(xyz) : package 'xyz' is not installed on this machine.
Do you want to install it? [Y/n]

Regards



[Rd] Error message library()
Milan Bouchet-Valat