Martin Maechler wrote: >>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> on Sat, 4 Nov 2006 10:59:16 +0100 writes: > >>>>>> "jacinthe" == jacinthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:06:10 +0100 writes: > > jacinthe> Dear R-Users, I have problems with the cobs > jacinthe> library. > Martin> ^^^^^^^ > Martin> It's package! > Martin> It's package! > Martin> ............. > Martin> [say it load five times, so you re-train your brain ] > ^^^^ > to which Peter Dalgaard appropriately responded > > PD> It's loud! > PD> It's loud! > PD> ... > PD> > PD> ;-) > > > jacinthe> When doing the cobs example, I get the > jacinthe> folling error message: > > [................] > > Martin> Of course, the above works "typically", since otherwise the > Martin> package would not be on CRAN. > > jacinthe> Any suggestions how to fix this problem? > > Martin> It's not easy to help you, since you didn't give any details > Martin> about your setup. > Martin> Please do so, e.g. by showing the result of sessionInfo(). > > In the mean time "jacinthe" sent me > > Jaci> sessionInfo() > Jaci> Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) > Jaci> i386-pc-mingw32 > > Jaci> attached base packages: > Jaci> [1] "splines" "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" > "utils" "datasets" "base" > > Jaci> other attached packages: > Jaci> cobs quantreg SparseM fMultivar fSeries ..... > Jaci> "1.1-3.5" "4.01" "0.68" "221.10065" "221.10065" ...... > > > which I think explains things: > > Your version of SparseM is probably too old and or may not have > been for R 2.3.1. > > Do the following > > 1) Get R 2.4.0 (or even R-2.4.0-patched) > > 2) upgrade.packages()
Let me jump in: It's update.packages()! It's update.packages()! ....................... (and use argument checkBuilt = TRUE) ;-) > where you should get newer versions of SparseM (and quantreg) > > [you can also try to do "2)" alone; and that will be much quicker; > but note that S4 class/methods handling has been wastly > improved for R 2.4.0 and later, and SparseM does use them] > > > > Martin> I guess a mismatch of versions of the packages involved, > Martin> notably your version of "SparseM" maybe outdated. > > jacinthe> Thank you for your help. > > Martin> you're welcome. > Martin> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich > > ______________________________________________ > 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.