Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > At least some of this will go away if you use a current version of 2.4.0 > alpha rather than one that is a week old (as the posting guide does ask). > We are now at r39258, and some of those binary packages were built against > a substantially later version of 2.4.0 alpha. > > If you look at the list of available packages at > > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/checkSummaryWin.htm > > you will see which are unavailable as Windows binaries and why. More can > be installed from the sources but do not pass R CMD check for Uwe (or in > most cases for anyone else: see the other CRAN summaries). > > This is the 'alpha' period, and we are waiting for updates on quite a > number of packages (especially ones that use S4 methods). However, R > 2.4.0 is not even in feature freeze yet, and it is quite possible that > packages will need to be reinstalled again prior to release.
Currently, the main problems with many packages are missing *recent* binaries (after the latest S4 changes) of BioC packages, hence many dependencies may not be working. I do not want to compile the whole BioC repository as well. Uwe > On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Richard M. Heiberger wrote: > >> I just downloaded the windows version >> R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-05 r39134) >> >> 1. When I downloaded the packages, the following two were not found. >>> utils:::menuInstallPkgs() >> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- >> dependency ''fCalendar'' is not available >> >> dependency ''SparseM'' is not available >> >> I am not sure which other packages depend on these. >> >> >> 2. Of the others, several didn't install cleanly >> >> package 'mlbench' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >> Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Program Files\R\R- >> 2.4.0alpha\library\file41bb5af1\mlbench' to 'C:\Program >> Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\mlbench' >> package 'tseries' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >> Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Program >> Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\file305e124 >> \tseries' to 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\tseries' >> package 'DAAG' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >> Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Program Files\R\R- >> 2.4.0alpha\library\file491c440d\DAAG' to 'C:\Program >> Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\DAAG' >> package 'acepack' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >> Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Program Files\R\R- >> 2.4.0alpha\library\file767d7a5a\acepack' to 'C:\Program >> Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\acepack' >> package 'rcom' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >> Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Program Files\R\R- >> 2.4.0alpha\library\file58784b40\rcom' to 'C:\Program >> Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\rcom' >> >> >> I reinstalled all five from the local zip files that were downloaded as part >> of the above >> installation, and four worked and one didn't. >> I needed to reinstall mlbench a third time and this time it worked. >> >> This type of problem frequently happens when I download a new version of R. > > This suggests problems with your local file system: it is definitely a > Windows rather than an R problem. > >> 3. rgl is still not working in Windows >> >> package 'rgl' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >> >>> library(rgl) >> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : >> unable to load shared library >> 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-24~1.0AL/library/rgl/libs/rgl.dll': >> LoadLibrary failure: The specified procedure could not be found. >> >> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'rgl' >> >> Therefore the Rcmdr 3-d graphics isn't working. >> >> >> Rich >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
