R help - May 2006 - new package error message

My coauthor made a new R package GeneLogit (100% R code) which installs
ok on R 2.3 on Windows. But when I type

library(GeneLogit)

it gave the error message

Error in library(GeneLogit) : 'GeneLogit' is not a valid package --
installed < 2.0.0?

It runs on R 1.9.0 just fine. It seems that others have encountered
same problem but no solution is found by googling

How can I fix this problem? Many thanks.  

Jason Liao, http://www.geocities.com/jg_liao
Dept. of Biostatistics, http://www2.umdnj.edu/bmtrxweb
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
683 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway? NJ 08854
phone 732-235-5429, School of Public Health office
phone 732-235-9824, Cancer Institute of New Jersey office

Dear Jason,

Get the source package (rather than the Windows binary) and rebuild it under
R 2.3.0, or have someone do this for you. See the R Installation and
Administration and Writing R Extensions manuals for details.

I hope this helps,
 John

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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Jason Liao
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 7:52 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] new package error message
> 
> My coauthor made a new R package GeneLogit (100% R code) 
> which installs ok on R 2.3 on Windows. But when I type
> 
> library(GeneLogit)
> 
> it gave the error message
> 
> Error in library(GeneLogit) : 'GeneLogit' is not a valid 
> package -- installed < 2.0.0?
> 
> It runs on R 1.9.0 just fine. It seems that others have 
> encountered same problem but no solution is found by googling
> 
> How can I fix this problem? Many thanks.  
> 
> Jason Liao, http://www.geocities.com/jg_liao Dept. of 
> Biostatistics, http://www2.umdnj.edu/bmtrxweb University of 
> Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
> 683 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway, NJ 08854 phone 732-235-5429, 
> School of Public Health office phone 732-235-9824, Cancer 
> Institute of New Jersey office
> 
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On Tue, 9 May 2006, Jason Liao wrote:
> My coauthor made a new R package GeneLogit (100% R code) which installs
> ok on R 2.3 on Windows. But when I type
>
> library(GeneLogit)
>
> it gave the error message
>
> Error in library(GeneLogit) : 'GeneLogit' is not a valid package --
> installed < 2.0.0?
>
> It runs on R 1.9.0 just fine. It seems that others have encountered
> same problem but no solution is found by googling
In every case I have ever seen mentioned, the solution was to install the 
package properly by R CMD INSTALL and not by a manual kludge.

The message is given if the installation lacks the metadata in the Meta 
subdirectory which INSTALL creates.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

Thank you very much, Prof. Ripley. This is our own package and in R
only, no C or Fortran code. We are doing this on Windows. So it seems
that we have to setup the complete R development system for a simple R
package to work.

Maybe we should just source() the file in, less elegant though.

Jason

--- Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:
> 
> In every case I have ever seen mentioned, the solution was to install
> the 
> package properly by R CMD INSTALL and not by a manual kludge.
> 
> The message is given if the installation lacks the metadata in the
> Meta 
> subdirectory which INSTALL creates.
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> 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, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
> 

Jason Liao, http://www.geocities.com/jg_liao
Dept. of Biostatistics, http://www2.umdnj.edu/bmtrxweb
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
683 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway? NJ 08854
phone 732-235-5429, School of Public Health office
phone 732-235-9824, Cancer Institute of New Jersey office