R help - Oct 1999 - [Fwd: Libraries loading, but not really?] - it really IS a problem :-(

kalish at psy.uwa.edu.au wrote:
> 
> I'm a newbie at R, and can't get libraries to really work.
> I did this:
> > library(help = mva)
> cancor                   Canonical Correlations
> cmdscale                 Classical (Metric) Multidimensional Scaling
> dist                     Distance Matrix Computation
> hclust                   Hierarchical Clustering
> kmeans                   K-Means Clustering
> prcomp                   Principal Components Analysis
> > (pc.cr<-princomp(USArrests))
> Error: couldn't find function "princomp"
> >
> 
> I should say that ?princomp works beautifully, but the function itself
> is absent.
> I imagine I have done something stupid in installation?
> 
> thanks,
I accidently left off the fact that what I REALLY did was:
> library(mva)
> princomp
Error: Object "princomp" not found
> library(mva)
> library(help = mva)
cancor                   Canonical Correlations
cmdscale                 Classical (Metric) Multidimensional Scaling
dist                     Distance Matrix Computation
hclust                   Hierarchical Clustering
kmeans                   K-Means Clustering
prcomp                   Principal Components Analysis
> princomp
Error: Object "princomp" not found
> 

thanks, 
mike
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Which version of R are you using? Which platform?  On my system
(R 0.65.1 on Debian Linux) princomp works fine.

Best,
Fritz


>>>>> On Thu, 07 Oct 1999 06:49:06 +0000,
>>>>> kalish  (k) wrote:
k> kalish at psy.uwa.edu.au wrote:
>> 
>> I'm a newbie at R, and can't get libraries to really work.
>> I did this:
>> > library(help = mva)
>> cancor                   Canonical Correlations
>> cmdscale                 Classical (Metric) Multidimensional Scaling
>> dist                     Distance Matrix Computation
>> hclust                   Hierarchical Clustering
>> kmeans                   K-Means Clustering
>> prcomp                   Principal Components Analysis
>> > (pc.cr<-princomp(USArrests))
>> Error: couldn't find function "princomp"
>> >
>> 
>> I should say that ?princomp works beautifully, but the function itself
>> is absent.
>> I imagine I have done something stupid in installation?
>> 
>> thanks,
k> I accidently left off the fact that what I REALLY did was:
>> library(mva)
>> princomp
k> Error: Object "princomp" not found
>> library(mva)
>> library(help = mva)
k> cancor                   Canonical Correlations
k> cmdscale                 Classical (Metric) Multidimensional Scaling
k> dist                     Distance Matrix Computation
k> hclust                   Hierarchical Clustering
k> kmeans                   K-Means Clustering
k> prcomp                   Principal Components
Analysis
>> princomp
k> Error: Object "princomp" not found
>> 

k> thanks, 
k> mike
k> -- 
k> ------------------------------------------------
k> Mike Kalish 			   Coordinator, Cognitive Science
k> Dept. of Psychology              email: kalish at psy.uwa.edu.au 
k> University of Western Australia  phone: 61 - 8 - 9380-2688
k> Nedlands, WA  6009               fax: 61 - 8 -  9380-1006
k> Australia           http://boneyard.psy.uwa.edu.au/kalish.html
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