Have you tried this after starting R in a "clean" workspace?
Or perhaps after starting R --vanilla?
It sounds to me like something is corrupted in your install.packages()
function --- or possible somewhere else --- which could be induced by
having some ghosts lurking about in .RData.
(After all, it is getting close to Hallowe'en. :-) )
cheers,
Rolf
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On 30/10/15 14:17, Boris Steipe wrote:
We are seeing the following problem when trying to install magrittr on Ubuntu
14.04
install.packages("magrittr")
Installing package into ‘/home/ehsueh/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
trying URL 'http://lib.ugent.be/CRAN/src/contrib/magrittr_1.5.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 200504 bytes (195 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 195 Kb
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Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) :
could not find function "install.packages"
In addition: Warning message:
In library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical.return =
TRUE, :
there is no package called ‘magrittr’
I don't understand why install.packages() executes, then can't find
install.packages().
I also don't understand why R gives us the startup message at that point.
Installation of other packages fails as well.
Installation of magrittr my Mac works without issues.
Version info below.
Thanks!
Boris
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R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] plot3D_1.0-2
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] misc3d_0.8-4 tcltk_3.0.2 tools_3.0.2
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