On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> I'll rebuild R-2.15 and start over. Will post results after doing that. > > > New build, new repository, same results. > > Quite the new experience with R, but one I need to quickly put behind me. > > Can someone suggest a test procedure to isolate the reason for this > inability to install packages? All ideas are welcome! > > Rich
When you say you are upgrading R, are you installing it in the same directory as the old install? I'm guessing that something went wrong with R's database of installed packages. The hint is that, if I read it correctly, installation of plyr and stringer throw an error because of reshape2, but plyr and stringer do not depend on reshape2. It could also be that you confuse R because you are installing into your own library ‘/home/rshepard/R/i486-slackware-linux-gnu-library/2.15’ which somehow causes a conflict if an older version exists in the system-wide library. If possible, I would wipe the installation directory (or choose a new one) as well your personal library (or better yet, disable the personal library altogether), then try again. FWIW, package reshape2, including its dependencies, installs fine on my (linux) machine under R 2.15.0. Peter ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.