Dear Brian and Peter, I guess that this problem didn't surface before because most use of the Rcmdr package is on Windows using the package binaries.
I think that I can simply remove mvtnorm (and probably some others as well) from the Rcmdr dependencies. I'll check more carefully when I have some time, but I believe that mtvnorm is there just for multcomp, and its inclusion probably dates to a period before dependencies were resolved by install.packages(). Thanks for bringing this to my attention. John -------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox -------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley > Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 10:45 AM > To: Peter Dalgaard > Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [Rd] Recursive dependencies(Rcmdr) > > On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > > > Something might have slipped by me, but I got into the following > > situation installing Rcmdr: > > install.packages() does indeed have code to check for > dependencies of dependencies. I got the message > > also installing the dependencies 'acepack', 'scatterplot3d', > 'quadprog', 'fBasics', 'Hmisc', 'mlbench', 'randomForest', > 'SparseM', 'xtable', 'oz', 'leaps', 'dynlm', 'e1071', > 'tseries', 'chron', 'fCalendar', 'its', 'DAAG', 'abind', > 'car', 'effects', 'lmtest', 'multcomp', 'mvtnorm', 'relimp', > 'sandwich', 'strucchange', 'zoo' > > The problem is the ordering. Rcmdr does have mvtnorm in the > 'Suggests' > list, and has it after 'multcomp', and install.packages does > not check that the Suggests list does not have inter-dependencies. > > So we do `do something smarter', but not smart enough. > > > > > < install.packages("Rcmdr",depend=TRUE) > > > > > Oodles of Output, until: > > > > * Installing *source* package 'multcomp' ... > > ** R > > ** data > > ** inst > > ** preparing package for lazy loading > > Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : > > unable to load shared library > '/home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/mvtnorm/libs/mvtnorm.so': > > /home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/mvtnorm/libs/mvtnorm.so: cannot open shared > > object file: No such file or directory Execution halted > > > > .... Several oodles more for remaining packages .... > > > > ** building package indices ... > > * DONE (strucchange) > > > > The downloaded packages are in > > /tmp/RtmpF23254/downloaded_packages > > Warning messages: > > 1: installation of package 'multcomp' had non-zero exit status in: > > install.packages("Rcmdr", depend = TRUE) > > 2: cannot create HTML package index in: > > tools:::unix.packages.html(.Library) > > > > > > OK, so we start Rcmdr > > > >> library(Rcmdr) > > Loading required package: tcltk > > Loading required package: car > > > > it then detects that multcomp is missing and asks for permission to > > install it, giving the same result. > > > > The thing appears to be that multcomp depends on mvtnorm, but the > > extra dependency goes undetected. Manual installation of the two > > works. > > > > A workaround is that John adds mvtnorm to the Suggested list for > > Rcmdr, but I wonder if we couldn't do something smarter. > > > >> version > > _ > > platform x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > > arch x86_64 > > os linux-gnu > > system x86_64, linux-gnu > > status > > major 2 > > minor 2.0 > > year 2005 > > month 10 > > day 06 > > svn rev 35749 > > language R > >> .libPaths() > > [1] "/home/bs/pd/Rlibrary" "/usr/lib64/R/library" > > > > -- > > O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B > > c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K > > (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: > (+45) 35327918 > > ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > FAX: (+45) 35327907 > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
