Dear Pete,
It's hard to tell from your email exactly what you did after you installed
the candisc package. Did you load the candisc package via library(candisc)
before trying to use the candisc() function?
I hope this helps,
John
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John Fox, Professor
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
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On> Behalf Of Pete Shepard
> Sent: December-10-08 4:14 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] trouble loading candisc
>
> Hello,
>
> I am having trouble loading the package candisc onto my R distribution. I
am> using 2.7.1-2. I do a "> install.packages("candisc"
> and get the following output.
>
> Warning in install.packages("candisc") :
> argument 'lib' is missing: using
'/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> trying URL '
>
ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/lang/R/CRAN/src/contrib/candisc_0.5-10.tar.gz'
> ftp data connection made, file length 27354 bytes
> opened URL
> =================================================> downloaded 26 Kb
>
> * Installing *source* package 'candisc' ...
> ** R
> ** data
> ** moving datasets to lazyload DB
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> Loading required package: car
> Loading required package: heplots
> ** help
> >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'candisc'
> Formats: text html latex example
> Grass text html latex example
> Note: removing empty section \details
> HSB text html latex example
> Note: removing empty section \examples
> candisc-package text html latex
> candisc text html latex example
> candiscList text html latex example
> heplot.candisc text html latex example
> heplot.candiscList text html latex
> ** building package indices ...
> * DONE (candisc)
>
> The downloaded packages are in
> /tmp/RtmpzNvnNN/downloaded_packages
>
> but I try to run candisc in R and it does not appear to be there?
>
> Pedro
>
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