R devel - Apr 2010 - problem with Rcmdr Plugins

Dear R Development People:

I have written a couple of plugins for Rcmdr and they do not seem to work with
R-2.11.0.

Here is the output:
> library(RcmdrPlugin.epack)
Loading required package: Rcmdr
Loading required package: tcltk
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
Loading required package: car
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---

Rcmdr Version 1.5-4


Attaching package: 'Rcmdr'

The following object(s) are masked from 'package:tcltk':

    tclvalue

Loading required package: rgl
Loading required package: TeachingDemos
Loading required package: tseries
Loading required package: quadprog
Loading required package: zoo

    'tseries' version: 0.10-22

    'tseries' is a package for time series analysis and computational
    finance.

    See 'library(help="tseries")' for details.

Loading required package: abind
Loading required package: MASS
Error : package 'rgl' is required by 'RcmdrPlugin.epack' so will
not be detached
Error in library(RcmdrPlugin.epack) : 
  .First.lib failed for 'RcmdrPlugin.epack'
> 
This is on a Windows XP.  I'm downloading the Rcmdr requirements on a Linux
machine as we speak.

Have you run into this please?
Thanks,
Erin


Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: hodgesse@uhd.edu


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Dear Erin,

I'm not sure why this is a problem with R 2.11.0 and not with earlier
versions (I'm sure that someone else will be able to answer), but it is
unnecessary for your plug-in package to require rgl, since rgl is already
loaded by the Rcmdr package at startup if it is present. The same is true of
tseries, abind, and MASS.

I hope this helps,
 John

--------------------------------
John Fox
Senator William McMaster 
  Professor of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox

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> Subject: [Rd] problem with Rcmdr Plugins
> 
> Dear R Development People:
> 
> I have written a couple of plugins for Rcmdr and they do not seem to work
> with R-2.11.0.
> 
> Here is the output:
> > library(RcmdrPlugin.epack)
> Loading required package: Rcmdr
> Loading required package: tcltk
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> Loading required package: car
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> 
> Rcmdr Version 1.5-4
> 
> 
> Attaching package: 'Rcmdr'
> 
> The following object(s) are masked from 'package:tcltk':
> 
>     tclvalue
> 
> Loading required package: rgl
> Loading required package: TeachingDemos
> Loading required package: tseries
> Loading required package: quadprog
> Loading required package: zoo
> 
>     'tseries' version: 0.10-22
> 
>     'tseries' is a package for time series analysis and
computational
>     finance.
> 
>     See 'library(help="tseries")' for details.
> 
> Loading required package: abind
> Loading required package: MASS
> Error : package 'rgl' is required by 'RcmdrPlugin.epack' so
will not be
> detached
> Error in library(RcmdrPlugin.epack) :
>   .First.lib failed for 'RcmdrPlugin.epack'
> >
> 
> This is on a Windows XP.  I'm downloading the Rcmdr requirements on a
Linux
> machine as we speak.
> 
> Have you run into this please?
> Thanks,
> Erin
> 
> 
> Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
> 
> 
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