On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 05:23 -0700, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
>
> I already have the package installed.
>
> $ apt-cache policy r-base-core
> r-base-core:
> Installed: 2.7.1-1+lenny1
> Candidate: 2.7.1-1+lenny1
> Version table:
> *** 2.7.1-1+lenny1 0
> 500 http://ftp.hk.debian.org lenny/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/R/library/grDevices/DESCRIPTION
> r-base-core: /usr/lib/R/library/grDevices/DESCRIPTION
>
> It is there. But I can't find dev.new on R
What do you mean by "can't find dev.new on R"? Do you want the source
code? At the R level?
dev.new
at the R prompt (yes, without parentheses) will show you that.
?dev.new
will give you the help page - you even showed me that this worked on
your system in another thread a few days ago, so it is there.
G
>
>
> B.R.
> Stephen
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org>
> To: Stephen Liu <sati...@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org>
> Sent: Tue, August 31, 2010 8:03:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] Where can I download/install grDevices
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 04:50:39AM -0700, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Debian 504 64 bit
> >
> > grDevices is NOT on Debian repo
> >
> > $ apt-cache search r-cran | grep grDevices
> > no printout
> >
> > On R
> >
> > $ sudo R
> > > install.packages("grDevices", dependencies=TRUE))
> > Warning in install.packages("grDevices") :
> > argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'
> > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> > Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> > Warning message:
> > In install.packages("grDevices") : package ‘grDevices’ is not available
> >
> > Please advise where can I download/install grDevices? TIA
>
> You're confused.
>
> It is part of R itself, and on Debian et al in r-base-core:
>
> e...@max:~$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/R/library/grDevices/DESCRIPTION
> r-base-core: /usr/lib/R/library/grDevices/DESCRIPTION
> e...@max:~$
>
> Hth, Dirk
>
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