R help - Apr 2007 - Package installed, functional but not available

Hello,

when I run packageStatus(), I get the following results:

 > packageStatus()
Number of installed packages:

                             ok upgrade unavailable
   /home/fernando/my_library 38       0           1
   /usr/local/lib/R/library  28       0           0

Number of available packages (each package/bundle counted only once):

                                          installed not installed
   http://cran-r.c3sl.ufpr.br/src/contrib        51           957

i.e., there is an unavailable package in my personal library. With,

 > summary(packageStatus())

I see that the unavailable package is one that I have done and 
installed via R CMD INSTALL. Although it says it is unavailable, I can 
load the package with library() and use its functions in the usual way.

There is no problem at all here since I can use the functions. I was 
just curious about what really means this "unavailable" 
classification. My guess is that this a package that is not on CRAN (?).

This is

 > version
                _
platform       i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch           i686
os             linux-gnu
system         i686, linux-gnu
status
major          2
minor          4.1
year           2006
month          12
day            18
svn rev        40228
language       R


Thanks for any explanations,
---
Fernando Mayer
Fisheries Study Group
Technology, Earth and Ocean Sciences Center
University of Vale do Itaja?
Itaja? - SC - Brazil

If you read the help page it says

Description:

      Summarize information about installed packages and packages
      available at various repositories, and automatically upgrade
      outdated packages.
...
    avail: a data frame with columns as the _matrix_ returned by
           'available.packages' plus '"Status"', a
factor with levels
           'c("installed", "not installed",
"unavailable")'..

so this is 'available' as in 'available.packages' (qv).


On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Fernando Mayer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when I run packageStatus(), I get the following results:
>
> > packageStatus()
> Number of installed packages:
>
>                             ok upgrade unavailable
>   /home/fernando/my_library 38       0           1
>   /usr/local/lib/R/library  28       0           0
>
> Number of available packages (each package/bundle counted only once):
>
>                                          installed not installed
>   http://cran-r.c3sl.ufpr.br/src/contrib        51           957
>
> i.e., there is an unavailable package in my personal library. With,
>
> > summary(packageStatus())
>
> I see that the unavailable package is one that I have done and
> installed via R CMD INSTALL. Although it says it is unavailable, I can
> load the package with library() and use its functions in the usual way.
>
> There is no problem at all here since I can use the functions. I was
> just curious about what really means this "unavailable"
> classification. My guess is that this a package that is not on CRAN (?).
No, not on the repositories you specified.
> This is
>
> > version
>                _
> platform       i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch           i686
> os             linux-gnu
> system         i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major          2
> minor          4.1
> year           2006
> month          12
> day            18
> svn rev        40228
> language       R
>
>
> Thanks for any explanations,
> ---
> Fernando Mayer
> Fisheries Study Group
> Technology, Earth and Ocean Sciences Center
> University of Vale do Itaja?
> Itaja? - SC - Brazil
>
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