I was going through http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/r_package_development_nov2014.pdf and found this on pg-3> fortunes::fortune(92)## ## If you don't go with R now, you will someday. ## -- David Kane (on whether to use R or S-PLUS) ## R-SIG-Finance (November 2004) However, when I tried it on my machine, I get rajulocal at hogwarts:~/work/r_programming$ R -q> fortunes::fortune(92)Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called ?fortunes? What package(s) do I need to install to get fortune in R? I tried doing a "apt-cache search fortune R" but none of the hits look promising. I am using Debian Jessie. rajulocal at hogwarts:~/work/r_programming$ dpkg -l \*fortune\* r-base | grep ^ii ii fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-7 amd64 provides fortune cookies on demand ii fortunes-min 1:1.99.1-7 all Data files containing selected fortune cookies ii r-base 3.1.1-1 all GNU R statistical computation and graphics system thanks -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/
Have you installed the fortunes package? From within R you can go
install.packages("fortunes")
If you have already installed it then there is something deeper going on.
On 21/12/2014 11:37, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:> I was going through
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/r_package_development_nov2014.pdf
> and found this on pg-3
>
>
>> fortunes::fortune(92)
> ##
> ## If you don't go with R now, you will someday.
> ## -- David Kane (on whether to use R or S-PLUS)
> ## R-SIG-Finance (November 2004)
>
> However, when I tried it on my machine, I get
>
> rajulocal at hogwarts:~/work/r_programming$ R -q
>> fortunes::fortune(92)
> Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called ?fortunes?
>
> What package(s) do I need to install to get fortune in R? I tried
> doing a "apt-cache search fortune R" but none of the hits look
> promising. I am using Debian Jessie.
>
> rajulocal at hogwarts:~/work/r_programming$ dpkg -l \*fortune\* r-base |
grep ^ii
> ii fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-7 amd64 provides fortune
> cookies on demand
> ii fortunes-min 1:1.99.1-7 all Data files containing
> selected fortune cookies
> ii r-base 3.1.1-1 all GNU R statistical
> computation and graphics system
>
> thanks
>
--
Michael
http://www.dewey.myzen.co.uk
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Michael Dewey <info at aghmed.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:> Have you installed the fortunes package? From within R you can go > install.packages("fortunes") > If you have already installed it then there is something deeper going on. > >Thanks. It works after installing the fortunes package via install.packages("fortunes") . raju