From kjbeath at kagi.com  Fri Aug 10 07:02:37 2007
From: kjbeath at kagi.com (Ken Beath)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:02:37 +1000
Subject: [Rd] errors in loading packages (PR#9839)
In-Reply-To: <20070809191438.74F8A66857@slim.kubism.ku.dk>
References: <20070809191438.74F8A66857@slim.kubism.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <1F5197BC-C97F-401D-B98F-5F5CF869D27E@kagi.com>

On 10/08/2007, at 5:14 AM, peterwickham at mac.com wrote:

> Full_Name: Peter Wickham
> Version: 2.4.1
> OS: Mac 10.4.10
> Submission from: (NULL) (209.59.87.136)
>
>
> Attempted to load "gdata" and "gregmisc" packages after using  
> installing via
> Package Installer in R. Both load attempts resulted in the  
> following message:
> "Error in loadNamespace(i[[1]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths())) :  there  
> is no package
> called 'gtools'". There is no mention of failure in the Mac OSX  
> check summary
> for packages. Another package "waveslim" installed and loaded  
> properly (apart
> from the R topic "AR1").

Either use the installer to download gtools etc or check the Install  
Dependencies box and they will all be automatically downloaded.

> I might also mention that I am still using R 2.4.1 tather than R  
> 2.5.1 as I
> received warning messages in red
>  R[244] and R[451] "tossing reply message sequence 1 on" when  
> downloading the
> latest version of R.
>
>

This isn't a problem, it still works, there might be a development  
version where it is fixed. For Mac related problems there is a  
special list at https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac Check  
the archives for discussion of this problem.

Ken



[Rd] errors in loading packages (PR#9839)
Ken Beath