I am makingmy life too complicated? I must be misunderstanding something
john@john-K53U:~$ dpkg -s r-cran-xml Package `r-cran-xml' is not installed and no info is available. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. Should I be installing this rather than the XML package (which seems to be installed. John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:48:56 -0500 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] package XML does not load in R 2.15.1 > > > On 21 July 2012 at 06:42, John Kane wrote: > | I am getting what appears to be an Unbuntu level error in trying to > install the > | XML package. > > You are making your life too complicated as there is a prepackaged > version: > > edd@max:~$ dpkg -s r-cran-xml > Package: r-cran-xml > Status: install ok installed > Priority: optional > Section: gnu-r > Installed-Size: 2363 > Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> > Architecture: amd64 > Version: 3.6-2-1 > Replaces: r-xml > Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.14.0), libc6 (>= 2.4), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4) > Conflicts: r-xml > Description: GNU R package for XML parsing and generation > This package provides facilities for the R language to > . > * parse XML files, URLs and strings, using either the DOM (Document > Object Model)/tree-based approach, or the event-driven SAX (Simple > API for XML) mechanism; > * generate XML content to buffers, files, URLs, and internal XML trees; > * read DTDs as R objects. > Original-Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> > Homepage: http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML > > > which works just fine: > > > edd@max:~$ r -e 'library(XML); print("All good")' > Loading required package: methods > Loading required package: utils > [1] "All good" > edd@max:~$ > > > Dirk > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com ____________________________________________________________ FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more! _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
