Christopher W Ryan
2014-Sep-26 14:38 UTC
[R] package loadable in R 3.1.1 Rterm but not in emacs/ESS
I'm running R on Windows 7. Clean install on a brand new computer yesterday. I installed Protext then R then Vincent Goulet's emacs with ESS, in that order. I then installed some R packages, in the R terminal window. Among them was car Today I opened emacs, hit M-x R to start an R session, and tried to load the car library. Results looked like the following: R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10) -- "Sock it to Me" Copyright (C) 2014 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R.> > options(chmhelp=FALSE, help_type="text") > options(STERM='iESS', str.dendrogram.last="'", editor='emacsclient.exe', show.error.locations=TRUE) > > library(car)Error in library(car) : there is no package called 'car'>However, in an R terminal (that is, outside of emacs) the car package loads fine: R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10) -- "Sock it to Me" Copyright (C) 2014 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R.> library(car) >I have not encountered this before and am confused. Why would R 3.1.1 in its terminal "see" a library, whereas it would not in emacs? (car is just an example; the same thing happens with zoo, stringr, Hmisc, and others.) Thanks. --Chris Ryan