Re: [R] update MASS
On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Ramón Casero Cañas wrote: I'd like to update MASS from version 7.2-11 to version 7-2.19. I am running R 2.0.1 on ubuntu, that installs MASS with the package r-cran-vr. First, MASS is part of VR, so it is VR you update. Second, please do *READ THE HELP PAGE*. The first argument of update.packages() is not a package name. Third, check the CRAN information, here at http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/VR.html and note Depends:R (= 2.1.0), graphics, stats ^ and no VR update is currently available for your version of R. Your R is seriously only of date. You might want to wait a week and then install 2.2.0. I have tried doing update.packages(), and I get a list of packages that I could update, but none is called MASS. I have tried the following too, right after launching emacs, but to no avail. QUOTE update.packages(MASS) trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES' Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 65650 bytes opened URL == downloaded 64Kb Error in old.packages(lib.loc = lib.loc, contriburl = contriburl, method = method, : no installed.packages for (invalid?) lib.loc=MASS /QUOTE I have the package installed in /usr/lib/R/library/MASS. I can do QUOTE library(MASS) search() [1] .GlobalEnvpackage:MASS package:methods [4] package:stats package:graphics package:grDevices [7] package:utils package:datasets Autoloads [10] package:base /QUOTE How could I update the package? Thanks, -- Ramón Casero Cañas web:http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~rcasero/ __ 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 -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595__ 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
Re: [R] update MASS
Ramón Casero Cañas wrote: I'd like to update MASS from version 7.2-11 to version 7-2.19. I am running R 2.0.1 on ubuntu, that installs MASS with the package r-cran-vr. My installed version of MASS, 7-2.20, has version requirement R= 2.1.0, so you will need to update R first. Kjetil I have tried doing update.packages(), and I get a list of packages that I could update, but none is called MASS. I have tried the following too, right after launching emacs, but to no avail. QUOTE update.packages(MASS) trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES' Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 65650 bytes opened URL == downloaded 64Kb Error in old.packages(lib.loc = lib.loc, contriburl = contriburl, method = method, : no installed.packages for (invalid?) lib.loc=MASS /QUOTE I have the package installed in /usr/lib/R/library/MASS. I can do QUOTE library(MASS) search() [1] .GlobalEnvpackage:MASS package:methods [4] package:stats package:graphics package:grDevices [7] package:utils package:datasets Autoloads [10] package:base /QUOTE How could I update the package? Thanks, -- __ 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
Re: [R] update MASS
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Ramón Casero Cañas wrote: I'd like to update MASS from version 7.2-11 to version 7-2.19. I am running R 2.0.1 on ubuntu, that installs MASS with the package r-cran-vr. First, MASS is part of VR, so it is VR you update. Thanks Prof Ripley, and Kjetil too, for your help. I am sure this was obvious to anyone but me, but I found the wording in http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS4/Software.html#RUnix a bit confusing. May I suggest that where it says ``To get the very latest version, use update.packages() from an R session'', it could be added: ``Note also that the current version of your R base system may limit the update, i.e. if the R base system you are running is too old, you will not be able to get the latest version of MASS. You can check the dependencies of MASS from the a href=http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/VR.html;Description file of VR at CRAN/a''. And maybe right before ``As the VR bundle is now recommended'' it could say ``MASS does not have its own package, but comes bundled with other libraries in a package called VR. Thus if you want to use/update MASS you need to install/update VR''. Your R is seriously only of date. You might want to wait a week and then install 2.2.0. Searching a bit more I have found that this problem has been brought up in the ubuntu forums http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-49178.html i.e. that the GNU R version is too old. As a temporal fix, it is suggested to install the sarge .deb packages from http://cran.r-project.org/ and then Linux/debian/stable, overlooking the dependencies error with libc6. I'll update to 2.2.0 in a week, but for the moment I did the former and it seems to work with the code I was writting. Cheers, -- Ramón Casero Cañas web:http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~rcasero/ __ 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
[R] update MASS
I'd like to update MASS from version 7.2-11 to version 7-2.19. I am running R 2.0.1 on ubuntu, that installs MASS with the package r-cran-vr. I have tried doing update.packages(), and I get a list of packages that I could update, but none is called MASS. I have tried the following too, right after launching emacs, but to no avail. QUOTE update.packages(MASS) trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES' Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 65650 bytes opened URL == downloaded 64Kb Error in old.packages(lib.loc = lib.loc, contriburl = contriburl, method = method, : no installed.packages for (invalid?) lib.loc=MASS /QUOTE I have the package installed in /usr/lib/R/library/MASS. I can do QUOTE library(MASS) search() [1] .GlobalEnvpackage:MASS package:methods [4] package:stats package:graphics package:grDevices [7] package:utils package:datasets Autoloads [10] package:base /QUOTE How could I update the package? Thanks, -- Ramón Casero Cañas web:http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~rcasero/ __ 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
