similar to: Problem updating mgcv package

Hi Group: >From an R session, I wanted to update packages, and issued the command: update.packages() R started to update the package "foreign" and proceeded. After downloading, while it attempted to install the packages, it came up with the following error message. I could not understand the error message. Does it indicate that the problem lies with the gcc? How do I install the

Hello, After reinstalling the whole OS and R as well, I tried to update.packages() and get the follwing error message: concerning the mgcv update: atlas2-base is installed and blas as well (on debian). I haven't found lf77blas, I assume it's a library or something similar associated with blas. any suggestion how to solve that, thanks Martin * Installing *source* package

Hi! As per Thomas' advice, I upgraded R by using "update.packages()" and got the following warning messages: Warning messages: 1: installation of package 'lmtest' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = contriburl, 2: installation of package 'quadprog' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages(update[,

Hello, I am trying to update the mgcv package on my Linux box and I keep getting an "Out of memory!" error. Does anyone know of a fix for this? Below is a snippet of the message that I keep getting: Thank you. Geoff ** R ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading ** help *** installing help indices >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'mgcv' Formats:

Hello All, I'm getting this error (Version: 1.9.0-1 on a debian system) > update.packages("mgcv") trying URL `ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/cran/src/contrib/PACKAGES' ftp data connection made, file length 169516 bytes opened URL .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........

Updating my 1.8.0 R installation (>update.packages() ) I obtain the following (SORRY FOR THE LENGTH OF THE LOG BUT IT HELPS!!!): ................ downloaded 135Kb KernSmooth : Version 2.22-11 in /usr/lib/R/library Version 2.22-12 on CRAN Update (y/N)? y mgcv : Version 0.9-3.1 in /usr/lib/R/library Version 0.9-6 on CRAN Update (y/N)? y trying URL

Hi All: I am interested in tools available in R that will enable me to run analysis of case crossover studies. I searched the web (http://www.google.com), and found that a tool called "funfit" was available for Splus. Searching the R archives, I also found mention of a "funfit" library. However, when I searched in CRAN, I could not find it. Is "funfit" now part of

Hi All: I have written an R search plug-in based on Prof Jonathan Baron's R search site. This Firefox/Netscape plug-in lets you search R sites and R discussion group archives directly from your Mozilla (Seamonkey) or Firefox or Netscape browser. Here is the link to the installer for the plug-in: http://arinbasu.bravehost.com/installer.html If you want the source files or have other comments

Dear Group: I am working with a data frame containing 316 rows of individuals with 79 variables. Each of these 79 variables have values that range between -4 to +4, and I want to subset this data frame so that in the resulting new dataframe, values of _all_ of these variables should range between -3 and +3. Let's say I have the following dataframe (it's a toy example with 4 individuals

Hi All: Is a distribution of R version 2.3.1 (the current version) available for the Ubuntu Linux? If I want to build a .deb package for R-2.3.1 for Ubuntu, are there specific requirements that I should be aware of? Is a tutorial available? I searched the web, and the repositories, but oculd not locate an appropriate file. TIA, Arin Basu

Hi All, I am scheduled to teach a graduate course on research methods in health sciences at a university. While drafting the course proposal, I decided to include a brief introduction to R, primarily with an objective to enable the students to do data analysis using R. It is expected that enrolled students of this course have all at least a formal first level introduction to quantitative methods

Hi All: This follows my earlier post on webized slides on lecture presentation on introducing R. I learned that in Mozilla (Firefox) browsers, the slides did not show up. Sorry for the no show. As a reluctant windows user, I kind of carelessly clicked through Powerpoint to convert the presentation file to its html form, unwittingly leading to the mess. See if it got corrected now (I do not have

Hi All: A couple of weeks back, I asked a question on the list that I was invited to provide an introductory lecture on R to a group of academicians in Kolkata. I thank all of you who had generously guided me in providing me web links and words to the wise. Time to give back. I did the presentation on introduction to R and uploaded the presentation files at the following site:

Dear All, Folks at the West Bengal University of Technology has set up a mirror to distribute R and associated packages. Here is the URL: http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/CRAN This will be helpful for R users in South Asia and the adjoining countries. I have yet to see the site featured in the CRAN list of mirrors. What needs to be done? For those of you who are impatient and would like to give it a

>Message: 41 >Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 13:52:33 +1100 > From: paul sorenson <sourceforge@metrak.com> >Subject: Re: [R] Wikis etc. >To: Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell@vanderbilt.edu>, r-help > <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch> >Message-ID: <43C07E71.3040303@metrak.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Frank E Harrell Jr

Hi All: I was looking for, but could not locate in the packages, or in the R archive searches if there exists an R implementation of Cuzick's test of trend. The test is described as follows: An extension of the Wilcoxon rank-sum test is developed to handle the situation in which a variable is measured for individuals in three or more (ordered) groups and a non-parametric test for trend

Dear community, I encountered a very disturbing phenomenon today: When I try to fit any gam() with mgcv R aborts. I could not find any post regarding this in google, which mades in even more strange. I am using the latest Ubuntu, latest R and latest mgcv everything up to date. The crash occured too with the last mgcv 1.7-11. This is the output from the R shell: <pre> R version 2.14.0

Dear friends, I have install the last version 2.10 and now I have probles with 'mgcv' which can be load. I proved to eliminated and reinstalled but always obtain the same message: > library (mgcv) This is mgcv 1.6-1. For overview type `help("mgcv-package")'. Error in runif(1) : .Random.seed is not an integer vector but of type 'list' Error : .onAttach non

Hi all, I am running into a problem installing a package. I am using a Mac with OSX 10.5.8 I have been using mgcv for gam models, it has been working fine. The mgcv listed in my directory of R packages (Package Manager) does not load up and I receive the following: Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load shared object

Hola! I am sending this to the list since emails from me to Simon Wood has bounced earlier. I get: > library(tsDyn) Loading required package: mgcv Erro en `parent.env<-`(`*tmp*`, value = NULL) : use of NULL environment is defunct Error: package 'mgcv' could not be loaded > library(mgcv) Erro en `parent.env<-`(`*tmp*`, value = NULL) : use of NULL environment