On Jul 8, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Pooya Lalehzari wrote:
> Hello,
> Some how, my xts/zoo package ran into trouble. I tried to re-install the
> packages, I get an error that it cannot remove the prior installation.
> I uninstalled R and the deleted all the libraries and reinstalled everything
> fresh. It still complains the same thing. I try to remove.packages("zoo"), it
> tells me there is no such package. I am really baffled. Does anyone know how
> to fix this problem?
If you look at the help page for remove.packages(), it states that the second
argument is taken to be the first element in .libPaths(). You have not told us
what .libPaths() is returning and you should do so (even though it wasn't
mentioned in the Posting Guide.) It seems possible that you set up an
additonal library location which your new installation of R is "finding" but
which is not the first item in the list of directories with library entries.
I have found that having two locations for libraries is an annoyance, and have
removed all "user library" locations.
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Let me second Prof. Ripley's suggestion that you do more reading of the
/listinfo/ page and the Posting Guide.
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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