R help - Jul 2005 - Misbehaviour of DSE

Folks,

I am finding problems with using "dse":
> library(dse1)
Loading required package: tframe
Error: c("package '%s' required by '%s' could not be
found", "setRNG", "dse1")
> library(dse2)
Loading required package: setRNG
Error: package 'setRNG' could not be loaded
In addition: Warning message:
there is no package called 'setRNG' in: library(pkg, character.only =
TRUE, logical = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc)

This is on R 2.1 on an Apple ibook (OS X) "panther".

Thanks,

	-ans.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:27:40AM -0700, Rob J Goedman
wrote:
> Ajay,
> 
> After installing both setRNG (2004.4-1, source or binary) and dse  
> (2005.6-1, source only), it works fine.
Thanks! :-) Now dse1 works, but I get:
> library(dse2)
Warning message:
replacing previous import: acf in: namespaceImportFrom(self, asNamespace(ns)) 

Should I worry?

-- 
Ajay Shah                                                   Consultant
ajayshah at mayin.org                      Department of Economic Affairs
http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah           Ministry of Finance, New Delhi

As the posting guide says, there is no R 2.1.  The first message suggests 
this is R 2.1.0, and the posting guide does ask you to use the latest 
version (and to quote versions accurately).

The dse bundle depends on package setRNG, which you have not installed,
so you need to do that.  Look at e.g.
> library(help=dse2)
which the posting guide actually asks you to do and include in your 
posting.  (And the message you got is pretty clearcut.)

(Suggestion to Paul Gilbert: it would work better to have the setRNG 
dependence in the top-level DESCRIPTION and not in the dependence for each 
package.  That way install.packages() can work out it is required from the 
information on CRAN, which is only at bundle level.)

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Ajay Shah wrote:
> I am finding problems with using "dse":
>
>> library(dse1)
> Loading required package: tframe
> Error: c("package '%s' required by '%s' could not be
found", "setRNG", "dse1")
>> library(dse2)
> Loading required package: setRNG
> Error: package 'setRNG' could not be loaded
> In addition: Warning message:
> there is no package called 'setRNG' in: library(pkg, character.only
= TRUE, logical = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc)
>
> This is on R 2.1 on an Apple ibook (OS X) "panther".
-- 
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