Hi all, I'm having problems installing plotrix. I tried installing it through install.packages, and from the unix command line, but each time it seems to stall when it is installing the help indices. has anyone had this same problem, is this package still maintained ? any help? thanks> install.packages("plotrix") > > I also tried using the source package > R CMD INSTALL plotrix_3.2-3.tar.gz > > both of them seemed to stall at installing help indices. > I cancelled after about 45 minutes of waiting. > > I tried to load the library incase the functions were loaded. But >> library(plotrix) > Error in library(plotrix) : there is no package called 'plotrix' > > Any knowledge about the status of this package or such errors would be > great. > > Alison
Alison Waller <alison.waller <at> embl.de> writes:> I'm having problems installing plotrix. I tried installing it > through install.packages, and from the > unix command line, but each time it seems to stall when > it is installing the help indices. > > has anyone had this same problem, is this package still maintained ? > > any help? > > thanks > > install.packages("plotrix") > > > > I also tried using the source package > > R CMD INSTALL plotrix_3.2-3.tar.gz > > > > both of them seemed to stall at installing help indices. > > I cancelled after about 45 minutes of waiting. > >No problem here (R 2.13.1, Ubuntu, straight from the probability.ca repository). R version? Operating system (probably linux)? Recent success in installing other packages? Results of tools::md5sum() and file.info() on the .tar.gz file?
On 08/16/2011 04:50 AM, Alison Waller wrote:> Hi all, > > I'm having problems installing plotrix. I tried installing it through install.packages, and from the unix command line, but each time it seems to stall when it is installing the help indices. > > has anyone had this same problem, is this package still maintained ? > > any help? > > thanks >> install.packages("plotrix") >> >> I also tried using the source package >> R CMD INSTALL plotrix_3.2-3.tar.gz >> >> both of them seemed to stall at installing help indices. >> I cancelled after about 45 minutes of waiting. >> >> I tried to load the library incase the functions were loaded. But >>> library(plotrix) >> Error in library(plotrix) : there is no package called 'plotrix' >> >> Any knowledge about the status of this package or such errors would be >> great. >>Hi Alison, I have installed the latest version both at home (Fedora 14) and work (Windows XP). You seem to be using Windows, and when I install at work, I manually unzip the package (don't ask - IT stuff). Have you tried unzipping the package to the local R library? Jim