[R] Installing a package - and making it work?
Dear list - Propoerly a beginner question, so bare with my frustration... I tried install the 'shapefiles' package into R 2.4.0 but it seems that the install had little effect... install.packages(c(shapefiles)) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- trying URL 'http://cran.dk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/shapefiles_0.5.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 42335 bytes opened URL downloaded 41Kb package 'shapefiles' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked The downloaded packages are in C:\TEMP\RtmpMz5Pqb\downloaded_packages updating HTML package descriptions dbf - read.dbf(test.dbf) Error: could not find function read.dbf Note thet the last line contains an error. Is the package installed or not? How do I get access to use the functionality it offers?? :-? Martin Hvidberg [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ 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.
Re: [R] Installing a package - and making it work?
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Hvidberg, Martin wrote: Dear list - Propoerly a beginner question, so bare with my frustration... I tried install the 'shapefiles' package into R 2.4.0 but it seems that the install had little effect... install.packages(c(shapefiles)) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- trying URL 'http://cran.dk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/shapefiles_0.5.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 42335 bytes opened URL downloaded 41Kb package 'shapefiles' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked The downloaded packages are in C:\TEMP\RtmpMz5Pqb\downloaded_packages updating HTML package descriptions library(shapefiles) dbf - read.dbf(test.dbf) Error: could not find function read.dbf Note thet the last line contains an error. Is the package installed or not? yes. The book (package) is in the library (is is installed). But you need to take it from the shelf and open it to read (load it into R via `library(pkgname)'). Best wishes, Torsten How do I get access to use the functionality it offers?? :-? Martin Hvidberg [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ 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.
Re: [R] Installing a package - and making it work?
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Hvidberg, Martin wrote: Dear list - Propoerly a beginner question, so bare with my frustration... Yes, and posting to R-help three minutes after posting to R-sig-geo, the correct list - raises the question about who's time is more important, doesn't it? What does help.search(read.dbf) tell you? (hint: read.dbf() in shapefiles calls read.dbf() in the recommended foreign package, which is certainly already present in your (unstated) Windows binary R 2.4.0 installation.) I tried install the 'shapefiles' package into R 2.4.0 but it seems that the install had little effect... install.packages(c(shapefiles)) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- trying URL 'http://cran.dk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/shapefiles_0.5.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 42335 bytes opened URL downloaded 41Kb package 'shapefiles' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked The downloaded packages are in C:\TEMP\RtmpMz5Pqb\downloaded_packages updating HTML package descriptions dbf - read.dbf(test.dbf) Error: could not find function read.dbf Note thet the last line contains an error. Is the package installed or not? How do I get access to use the functionality it offers?? :-? Martin Hvidberg [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ 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. -- Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ 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.
Re: [R] Installing a package - and making it work?
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Torsten Hothorn wrote: On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Hvidberg, Martin wrote: Dear list - Propoerly a beginner question, so bare with my frustration... I tried install the 'shapefiles' package into R 2.4.0 but it seems that the install had little effect... install.packages(c(shapefiles)) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- trying URL 'http://cran.dk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/shapefiles_0.5.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 42335 bytes opened URL downloaded 41Kb package 'shapefiles' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked The downloaded packages are in C:\TEMP\RtmpMz5Pqb\downloaded_packages updating HTML package descriptions library(shapefiles) dbf - read.dbf(test.dbf) Error: could not find function read.dbf Note thet the last line contains an error. Is the package installed or not? yes. The book (package) is in the library (is is installed). But you need to take it from the shelf and open it to read (load it into R via `library(pkgname)'). Yes, rather a FAQ, and certainly the cause of the questioner's problem. Perhaps reading sections 5.2 and 5.3 of the R FAQ? Or looking at the Windows Packages menu a bit more carefully? Reading what sessionInfo() says? Roger Best wishes, Torsten How do I get access to use the functionality it offers?? :-? Martin Hvidberg [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ 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. -- Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ 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.
