Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-12-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi folks, Win 7 64 bit R 32 bit install.packages(gregmisc) Installing package(s) into ‘C:\Users\satimiswin764\Documents/R/win-library/2.12’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-12-01 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 07:32 -0500, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: snip / In the end it appears that there was no problem in accessing the gdata package or any of its components and that the poster's problem stemmed from issuing

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-29 Thread Stephen Liu
: Re: [R] Where is gdata? ?read.xls I must run ??read.xls Not if you library(gdata) first. Then ?read.xls should work. Regards Liviu [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-29 Thread Spencer Graves
2:40:16 PM Subject: Re: [R] Where is gdata? ?read.xls I must run ??read.xls Not if you library(gdata) first. Then ?read.xls should work. Regards Liviu [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-29 Thread Stephen Liu
@r-project.org Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 4:57:53 PM Subject: Re: [R] Where is gdata? Hi, Stephen: The directory C:\Users\satimiswin764\My Documents\R\win-library\2.12\gdata\perl is NOT the perl interpreter but only perl code in the gdata package for R, invoked by certain R commands

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-29 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Liviu, Not if you library(gdata) first. Then ?read.xls should work. Yes, I did. I found something strange here which I can't explain. Win 7 64bit R 32/64 bit Just rebooted Win 7 and R library(gdata)

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-29 Thread Stephen Liu
ggrothendi...@gmail.com Cc: Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com; r-help r-help@r-project.org Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 8:39:55 PM Subject: Re: [R] Where is gdata? Hi Liviu, Not if you library(gdata) first. Then ?read.xls should work. Yes, I did. I found something strange here which I

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-29 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
:39:55 PM Subject: Re: [R] Where is gdata? On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Liviu, Not if you library(gdata) first. Then ?read.xls should work. Yes, I did. I found something strange here which I can't explain. Win 7 64bit R 32/64 bit Just

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-29 Thread Stephen Liu
From: Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com To: Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com Cc: r-help r-help@r-project.org Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 11:31:18 PM Subject: Re: [R] Where is gdata? On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-29 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Gabor, Please start at a fresh version of R.  Copy and paste your session from the R console rather than relating what happened.  Also, what version of gdata are you using?  Older versions did not have

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-29 Thread Stephen Liu
Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com Cc: r-help r-help@r-project.org Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 12:54:54 AM Subject: Re: [R] Where is gdata? Hi Gabor, Please start at a fresh version of R. Copy and paste your session from the R console rather than relating what happened. Also, what version

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-29 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Gabor, That is the correct version of gdata.  I am using Windows 32 so there could be some differences due to that.  At any rate, can you start a fresh R session and show the console output of the problems you have seen. 

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-29 Thread Stephen Liu
of curiosity I pursue finding the cause of problem in question nothing else. B.R. Stephen L From: Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com Cc: r-help r-help@r-project.org Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 10:18:25 AM Subject: Re: [R] Where is gdata? Hi Gabor

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-29 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Gabor, Your virtual machine does not have gdata in its library. No.  This virtual machine is running Oracle VBox as virtualizer with Ubunut 10.10 desktop 64bit as host.  R is not installed on host.  Even it has, host

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-29 Thread Stephen Liu
ggrothendi...@gmail.com Cc: r-help r-help@r-project.org Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 11:21:13 AM Subject: Re: [R] Where is gdata? Hi Gabor, Your virtual machine does not have gdata in its library. No. This virtual machine is running Oracle VBox as virtualizer with Ubunut 10.10 desktop 64bit

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-29 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Gabor, Your library may not be set to what you think it is.  Try issuing this command to discover which libraries its using: .libPaths() [1] C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents/R/win-library/2.12 [2]

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-29 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Gabor, Your library may not be set to what you think it is.  Try issuing this command to discover which libraries its using:

[R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Win 7 64 bit R 32 bit install.packages(gregmisc) Installing package(s) into ‘C:\Users\satimiswin764\Documents/R/win-library/2.12’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- also installing the dependency ‘gmodels’ trying URL

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-28 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: library(gdata) gdata Error: object 'gdata' not found gdata() Error: could not find function gdata Please advise what mistake I have committed.  TIA Try help(package=gdata) Regards Liviu B.R. Stephen L        

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-28 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, Greg, Stephen, Liviu: I tried install.packages('gregmisc'), which Stephen said he had. Then help(pac=gdata) seemed to work normally. However, when I then tried library(gdata), I got an error message from the the operating system, saying perl.exe has stopped working. I cancelled

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com wrote:      I tried install.packages('gregmisc'), which Stephen said he had.  Then help(pac=gdata) seemed to work normally.  However, when I then tried library(gdata), I got an error message from the the

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-28 Thread Spencer Graves
Hello, All: Prof. Ripley suggested I remove RTools/perl from my path. I did that leaving Strawberry perl. Then everything seemed to work appropriately. Thanks to all. Spencer On 11/28/2010 7:49 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Spencer

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-28 Thread Spencer Graves
Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 12:58:25 AM Subject: Re: [R] Where is gdata? Hi, Stephen: Have you solved the problem yet? If no, see below. Spencer ### Hello, All: Prof. Ripley suggested I remove RTools/perl from my path. I did that leaving Strawberry perl

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com wrote: Hello, All:      Prof. Ripley suggested I remove RTools/perl from my path.  I did that leaving Strawberry perl.  Then everything seemed to work appropriately. 1. If you have the Rtools perl prior

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-28 Thread Stephen Liu
the datasets list of Ecdat B.R. Stephen L From: Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 11:33:12 AM Subject: Re: [R] Where is gdata? Hi, Stephen: What operating system do you have? From the path you cite, I

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-28 Thread Spencer Graves
From: Spencer Gravesspencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com To: Stephen Liusati...@yahoo.com; r-helpr-help@r-project.org Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 11:33:12 AM Subject: Re: [R] Where is gdata? Hi, Stephen: What operating system do you have? From the path you cite, I

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Spencer, I don't have RTools installed.  Therefore I can't find RTools/perl library(RTools) Error in library(RTools) : there is no package called 'RTools' Rtools is not an R package. Its a collection of UNIX-like

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding your question about gdata, 1. if gdata did not get installed then just do this from within R: install.packages(gdata) (or use the Packages | Install Package(s) menu to accomplish same). If that

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-28 Thread Stephen Liu
...@structuremonitoring.com; r-help r-help@r-project.org Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 1:16:35 PM Subject: Re: [R] Where is gdata? On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding your question about gdata, 1. if gdata did not get installed then just do

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-28 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: ?read.xls I must run ??read.xls Not if you library(gdata) first. Then ?read.xls should work. Regards Liviu __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-28 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, Liviu: Doesn't he need a version of perl installed with a particular perl package for read.xls to work properly? Spencer On 11/28/2010 10:40 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Stephen Liusati...@yahoo.com wrote: ?read.xls I must run ??read.xls

Re: [R] Where is gdata?

2010-11-28 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Spencer On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com wrote:      Doesn't he need a version of perl installed with a particular perl package for read.xls to work properly? I really don't know. I assume that, if the package was installed and could