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2008 Dec 14
2
Help required to install package from a website
Hi,
I am new to R and I'm looking to perform some method comparison
analysis and would be grateful for some help regarding package
installation.
There is a package 'MethComp' that I want to use
(http://staff.pubhealth.ku.dk/~bxc/MethComp/Courses/Sthm.2007/.)
Unfortunately I am unable to install it. I have tried numerous
approaches but to no avail. this is the first time I have tried to
2011 Aug 19
1
Error in read.dcf(file = tmpf) : Line starting '<head> ...' is malformed!
Dear R-Users,
I'm trying to setup a personal repository for a few packages I'm working on.
I am on R-Forge but I still need to have various versions of my package that
R-Forge does not build (for R 2.8.1 for example).
So I followed the instructions in this document:
Hhttp://
cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Setting-up-a-package-repository
and used this function as
2008 Jul 03
1
Installation of packages via GUI, Mac OS X
All,
I'm running R v2.7.1 on Mac OS X. When I go to the R package installer GUI,
I am not prompted to select a repository. The usual screen is there but
the columns for package, installed version, and repository version are all
populated via blank entries.
If I select "Get List" the error below occurs. The same thing occurs if I
go form the command line via install.packages.
2008 Mar 10
3
internet proxy settings (win)
I cannot access internet through R.
My IT-guys told me that I should set the proxy and the port and then
everything will be fine. Where can I set them?
I use R 2.6.2 under Windows 2000 and these settings are those of the
Internet Explorer (no password).
I read http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#The-Internet-download-functions-fail_002e
but staring R by
"C:\Program
2011 Aug 26
1
issue with available.packages() and download.file()
Dear R-Users,
I think I have encountered a potential bug (or at least unwanted behavior),
but I'm not sure so I wanted to post here first. Lately I've been
encountering an error when running a package I put together. I have my
package set up to check for updates when it loads but this error occurs and
stops the package from loading:
Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for
2009 Oct 10
1
Errors in installing package "rJava" on Ubuntu (PR#13992)
*Hello,
I have had this serious problem while trying to install package rJava. It is
a requirement by the package JGR and it cannot be downloaded due to the
error indicated below.
I have googled and looked at the FAQ but no solution yet.
Please advise.
Kind regards,
Lazarus
> install.packages("rJava")*
Warning in install.packages("rJava") :
argument 'lib' is
2009 Oct 10
1
installing any package fails using 'install.packages()' (PR#13993)
Dear all,
I installed my R-2.9.2 on my ubuntu version 9.04 successfully using the
command
sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
The problem is that I cannot install any package.
See my details below:
> install.packages("epicalc")
Warning in install.packages("epicalc") :
argument 'lib' is missing: using
'/home/lmramba/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9'
2012 Jun 06
1
Error in installing packages
Dear list,
I'm trying to install a package but every time I select the option form the
menu this error message appears:
> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
Error in read.dcf(file = tmpf) :
Line starting '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLI ...' is malformed!
Do you have any clue of the reason why is it happening? I'm using a older
version (2.9.2) but it always worked perfectly!
Best regards,
2016 Mar 02
2
install.packages() fails with drat repository on networkdrive
Dear all,
install.packages("lme4") fails with error
Error in read.dcf(file = tmpf) : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In read.dcf(file = tmpf) :
cannot open compressed file
'//servername/repository_path/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/PACKAGES',
probable reason 'No such file or directory'
the repositories set in .Rprofile are
2015 Sep 21
2
segfault with readDCF on R 3.1.2 on AIX 6.1 when using install.packages
Here's an update:
I checked the ChangeLog for R, and it seems like readDCF was changed
in 3.0.2. I went on a whim and copied src/main/dcf.c from R 2.15.3
over to 3.2.2, and R compiled fine and install.packages now work for
me.
This is probably not ideal, but it at least makes R usable on AIX for
me. Would definitely like to help figure out what's wrong with the
new dcf.c on AIX.
2015 Sep 21
5
segfault with readDCF on R 3.1.2 on AIX 6.1 when using install.packages
Hi,
Note that one significant change to read.dcf() that happened since R
3.0.2 is the addition of support for arbitrary long lines (commit
63281), which never worked:
dcf <- paste(c("aa: ", rep(letters, length.out=10000)), collapse="")
writeLines(dcf, "test.dcf")
nchar(read.dcf("test.dcf"))
# aa
# [1,] 8186
The culprit being line
2014 Nov 11
2
segfault with readDCF on R 3.1.2 on AIX 6.1 when using install.packages
Dear list (re-posting from r-help as r-devel is probably more appropriate),
I was able to successfully compile R on our AIX box at work using the
GNU compilers following the instructions on the R Administration
guide. The output can be seen at here
(https://gist.github.com/nguyenvinh/504321ea9c89d8919bef) and yields
no errors .
However, I get a segfault whenever I try to use the
2008 Nov 10
1
Issue with Mac OSX version of R (PR#13275)
Full_Name: Galen papkov
Version: 2.8.0
OS: Tiger v.10.4.11
Submission from: (NULL) (129.7.91.106)
The Package Installer cannot seem to find the CRAN source. When I try to "Get
List", I get the following error:
Error in read.dcf(file = tmpf) :
Found continuation line starting ' <!DOCTYPE HTML P ...' at begin of
record.
I also tried to put the URL in directly with the
2007 Jul 18
1
(PR#9796) write.dcf/read.dcf cycle converts missing entry
BIll,
Thanks.
I am seeing some problems here, for example when all the fields are
missing, or all the fields in a row are missing. I've fixes for those,
and will commit to R-devel shortly.
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, bill at insightful.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Bill Dunlap
> Version: 2.5.0
> OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 6)
> Submission from: (NULL)
2010 Jan 19
1
Error compiling R 2.10.1 on AIX
I'm trying to compile R 2.10.1 on AIX 5.3, and am getting the following
error:
Error in read.dcf(file = descfile) :
Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!
Calls: makeLazyLoading ... code2LazyLoadDB -> loadNamespace ->
parseNamespaceFile -> read.dcf
Execution halted
make[3]: *** [all] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
2007 Sep 26
1
Lack of final newline in write.dcf changes append usage
The change in r42731 eliminating the final blank line when writing DCF
files changes the way 'append' can be used in 'write.dcf' and I was
wondering if this is intentional. Basically, I want to write a data
frame to DCF format one row at a time, so I make use of repeated calls
to 'write.dcf(append = TRUE)'. However, in R 2.6.0RC the resulting DCF
file is not formatted
2008 Sep 12
1
write.dcf does not quote as Debian would like it to (PR#12816)
Full_Name: charles blundell
Version: 2.7.0
OS: Debian GNU/Linux
Submission from: (NULL) (217.37.73.202)
The Debian Policy Manual says concerning lines in a Description field:
* Those containing a space, a full stop and some more characters. These are for
future expansion. Do not use them.
(section 5.6.13, http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html)
But for example:
>
2014 May 14
1
Bug in read.dcf(all = TRUE)?
Hi,
read.dcf() can modify the locale variable LC_CTYPE, and here is a
minimal example:
> Sys.getlocale('LC_CTYPE')
[1] "en_US.UTF-8"
> read.dcf(textConnection('a: b'), all = TRUE)
a
1 b
> Sys.getlocale('LC_CTYPE')
[1] "C"
After diagnosing the problem, it seems the on.exit() call in
read.dcf() is the culprit:
2009 Oct 10
0
Errors in installing package "rJava" on Ubuntu
*Hello,
I have had this serious problem while trying to install package rJava. It is
a requirement by the package JGR and it cannot be downloaded due to the
error indicated below.
I have googled and looked at the FAQ but no solution yet.
Please advise.
Kind regards,
Lazarus
> install.packages("rJava")*
Warning in install.packages("rJava") :
argument 'lib' is
2005 Dec 09
1
local source packages install from within R session - cross-platform
I realize that others have struggled with this issue...i.e.
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/05/01/9826.html
i am on os.x 10.4 w/ R2.2, and am (perhaps foolishly) also on this quest...
i would like to be able to install downloaded source (tar.gz'd) files from
within an R session, and have it work in a X-platform way..i am often not
connected to the internet and have libraries