On Jan 2, 7:32 pm, "William Stein" <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:57 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear support,
> > Because I only have OSX and there is this scary warning about it in
> > the documentation for r.install_packages (which incidentally the test
> > for it has no "s", but I don't know if that matters), I was trying to
> > load one on the sagenb site. Probably this is a gross violation of
> > bandwidth or something,
>
> It will surely fail with a permission denied error at some point. What
> package would you like to install?
>
> > but anyway the surprise result under the R
> > interface was
>
> > install_packages(MASS)
> > Error: could not find function "install_packages"
Mmh, we are not installing some recommended packages, but I don't
think it matters here.
> Try typing
>
> r.install_packages("MASS")
>
> in a normal Sage input cell. You probably forgot the quotes.
>
> Trying this on OS X it definitely fails for me. There is this message:
>
> "sage: r.install_packages("MASS")
> ** You are using OS X. Unfortunately, the R optional package system
> currently doesn't support OS X very well. We are working on this. **"
>
> I wonder who the "We" refers to? :-)
Well, we might want to upgrade R to 2.8, too.
> I tried the above on sagenb.org (I'm the admin, so I have permissions).
> It seems to fail as well:
>
> s...@sagenb:~$ sage
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Sage Version 3.2.2, Release Date: 2008-12-18 |
> | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> sage: r.install_packages("MASS")
> 0.00user 0.02system 0:00.03elapsed 82%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
> 64inputs+0outputs (1major+209minor)pagefaults 0swaps
>
> R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
> Copyright (C) 2007 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
<SNIP>
> trying URL 'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/VR_7.2-45.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 465054 bytes (454 Kb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 454 Kb
>
> WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
^^^^ this is obviously a bad idea on the part of R's developers.
<SNIP>
> --
> William Stein
Cheers,
Michael
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org
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