well, it's complaining because you don't have gtools installed. how about:
install.packages("gplots", dep=T) ? b On Feb 20, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Randy Zelick wrote: > Hello all, > > I use R on both windows and a "mainframe" linux installation (RedHat > enterprise 3.0, which they tell me is soon to be upgraded to 4.0). On > windows I installed the package gplots without trouble, and it > works fine. > When I attempted to do the same on the unix computer, the following > error > message was forthcoming: > > > > > downloaded 216Kb > > * Installing *source* package 'gplots' ... > ** R > ** data > ** inst > ** preparing package for lazy loading > Loading required package: gtools > Warning in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE, > lib.loc = > lib.loc) : > there is no package called 'gtools' > Error: package 'gtools' could not be loaded > Execution halted > ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'gplots' > ** Removing '/n/fs/disk/resuser02/u/zelickr/R/library/gplots' > > The downloaded packages are in > /tmp/RtmpikM2JW/downloaded_packages > Warning messages: > 1: installation of package 'gplots' had non-zero exit status in: > install.packages("gplots", lib = "~/R/library") > 2: cannot create HTML package index in: > tools:::unix.packages.html(.Library) > > > > Can someone provide the bit of information I need to progress with > this? > > Thanks very much, > > =Randy= > > R. Zelick email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Department of Biology voice: 503-725-3086 > Portland State University fax: 503-725-3888 > > mailing: > P.O. Box 751 > Portland, OR 97207 > > shipping: > 1719 SW 10th Ave, Room 246 > Portland, OR 97201 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.