R help - Mar 2008 - Can not install fCalendar package under R 2.6.2

Dear R helper:
When I was trying to install the fCalendar package, R report the 
following error and then my installation failed:

* Installing *source* package 'fCalendar' ...
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Loading required package: MASS
Loading required package: fEcofin
Loading required package: fUtilities
Loading required package: RUnit

  RUnit 0.4.17 loaded.
Loading required package: spatial
Loading required package: tcltk
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
Loading required package: zoo
Error in .Internal(putenv(x)) : no internal function "putenv"
Calls: <Anonymous> ... sys.source -> eval -> eval -> .currentYear
->
Sys.setenv
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'fCalendar'
** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/fCalendar'

by the way, my system is Ubuntu 7.04,
platform       i486-pc-linux-gnu
arch           i486
os             linux-gnu
system         i486, linux-gnu

I tried to look for  putenv myself, R reported that it is a deprecated 
function in "base" package, I loaded the "base" package and
still end up
with the same Error report.

Pls do help me.

Yan Wang
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

E-mail address:   ywang67 at isye.gatech.edu

I have previously sent a same email to r-help at list.r-project.org, however 
I am not sure if the mailing address has been changed to this one. If the 
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delete one of them.

Dear R helper:
When I was trying to install the fCalendar package, R report the following 
error and then my installation failed:

* Installing *source* package 'fCalendar' ...
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Loading required package: MASS
Loading required package: fEcofin
Loading required package: fUtilities
Loading required package: RUnit

  RUnit 0.4.17 loaded.
Loading required package: spatial
Loading required package: tcltk
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
Loading required package: zoo
Error in .Internal(putenv(x)) : no internal function "putenv"
Calls: <Anonymous> ... sys.source -> eval -> eval -> .currentYear
-> Sys.setenv
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'fCalendar'
** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/fCalendar'

by the way, my system is Ubuntu 7.04,
platform       i486-pc-linux-gnu
arch           i486
os             linux-gnu
system         i486, linux-gnu

I tried to look for  putenv myself, R reported that it is a deprecated function 
in "base" package, I loaded the "base" package and still end
up with the same
Error report.

Pls do help me.

Yan Wang
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

E-mail address:   ywang67 at isye.gatech.edu

I suspect you have a rather old version of the fCalendar package (or 
possibly of one of the packages it loads).  The current version is 262.73 
and does not use putenv or Sys.putenv.

(Packages really should not be using global system settings but the 
current version does
> .currentYear
function ()
{
     TZ <- Sys.getenv("TZ")
     if (TZ[[1]] != "GMT") {
         Sys.setenv(TZ = "GMT")
         on.exit(Sys.setenv(TZ = TZ))
     }
     as.POSIXlt(Sys.time())$year + 1900
}

whereas as.POSIXlt has a 'tz' argument.  I also don't see the point
of
recording the current year *when the package is installed*: a comment 
says this is done in '.Firstlib' but it is not done in .First.lib.)

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Yan Wang wrote:
> Dear R helper:
> When I was trying to install the fCalendar package, R report the
> following error and then my installation failed:
>
> * Installing *source* package 'fCalendar' ...
> ** R
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> Loading required package: MASS
> Loading required package: fEcofin
> Loading required package: fUtilities
> Loading required package: RUnit
>
>  RUnit 0.4.17 loaded.
> Loading required package: spatial
> Loading required package: tcltk
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> Loading required package: zoo
> Error in .Internal(putenv(x)) : no internal function "putenv"
> Calls: <Anonymous> ... sys.source -> eval -> eval ->
.currentYear ->
> Sys.setenv
> Execution halted
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'fCalendar'
> ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/fCalendar'
>
> by the way, my system is Ubuntu 7.04,
> platform       i486-pc-linux-gnu
> arch           i486
> os             linux-gnu
> system         i486, linux-gnu
>
> I tried to look for  putenv myself, R reported that it is a deprecated
> function in "base" package, I loaded the "base" package
and still end up
> with the same Error report.
It is Sys.putenv that is deprecated.  The internal function putenv went in 
R 2.5.0.
> Pls do help me.
>
> Yan Wang
> Georgia Institute of Technology
> School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
>
> E-mail address:   ywang67 at isye.gatech.edu
>
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