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I am having a peculiar problem with installation of packages. I am trying to install the package "maptools". This is what I get. install.packages("maptools",depend=T) Warning in install.packages("maptools", depend = T) : argument 'lib' is missing: using /usr/local/lib/R/site-library Warning: unable to access index for repository

I want to read data from a number of files into R. Reading individual files one by one requires writing enormous amount of code that will look something like the following. **************** maptools:::dbf.read("wb-01vc.dbf")->dist1 maptools:::dbf.read("wb-02vc.dbf")->dist2 maptools:::dbf.read("wb-03vc.dbf")->dist3

I have obtained shapefiles for Indian states from here: http://www.maptell.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=159&func=fileinfo&filecatid=115&parent=category Problem: I want to extract centroid coordinates for each State, but there is some coding problem with the shapefiles that prevents this. #Code: #After extracting the shapefiles from the india_state.zip file, then:

I installed R (R-2.4.1-win32.exe) on a new computer with Windows Vista and a 64 bit operating system (hp dv9000 with intel core t7200). The base R runs fine, but I can not get any of the packages to load. From within R I choose install packages choose a site then a package. I tried installing 2 packages and get similar errors (see below), I just copied and pasted lines from R. Can anyone

Yum using proxy that requires authentication and a Password that contains the two characters \/ fails normally I can get yum to work with a proxy that requires authentication when required by doing something like http_proxy=http://<my username>:<my password>@<proxy server>:<proxy server port> export http_proxy or by filling in the appropriate information in yum.conf.

Hi All, I have been trying to solve the issue of Xen-based Virtual Machines (as I described earlier); I have the problem of ethernet ports locked to a single Mac address in my lab--hence VM''s can''t communicate using bridging other than their own dom0. To further test/confirm, yesterday I took my laptop at home and connected to my Home-Hub (which issues DHCP based IPs); I

I had downloaded and installed a number of packages, successfully, when I ran into some problem with maptools: It would eat up CPU and most of all memory. I rebooted, and tried again, only running the terminal after the reboot; with the same result: " sp2WB text html latex example sp2tmap text html latex example spCbind-methods text html latex example Out of memory! ERROR: building help

Hi, I am trying to compile a package i am developing on my home computer where i am running Windows NT 4.0 service pack 6. Everything works fine on my other computer at work running windows 98. I am using the cygwin 1.1 bash shell and tolls with the MingW compiler, version 2.95.2-1 installed seperately and first in the path. I have active perl 6.16 as well. Here is the error I get when i run

Hi Thanks once again for your help, I do appreciate it..... however.... Here is what I get with your test.... (under tcsh - i normally use bash, but I will keep everything the same) users/mwatson> env http_proxy=http://wwwcache.bbsrc.ac.uk:8080/ R >options(internet.info=0) >update.packages() trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES' unable to connect to

Hi, I've just installed a server with CentOS 4. This server is behind a proxy. I'm trying to import the RPM key. Already set http_proxy variable to: export "http_proxy"=http://proxy.xpto.com:3128 Truth is, command # rpm --import http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4 just leaves me hanged. Any ideas ? Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito

I was trying to install R on a unix server. Because of a firewall i can't install biocLite for working with Bioconductor. With windows it wasn't a problem. I used the option '--internet2' to bypass the firewall. I don't have any idea, how to do it with unix. I tried to set my proxy >Sys.putenv("http_proxy"="http...:8080")

I am having difficulty loading a points shapefile (1600 records) I generated from ArcGIS as a PointsSpatialDataFrame using the maptools readShapePoints function. library(maptools) surveypts <- readShapePoints(system.file("C:/temp/survey.shp", package="maptools")[1] Error in getinfo.shape(filen) : Error opening SHP file I've tried numerous re-exports and renames of the

Hello everyone, I run R on Gentoo Linux and this week I upgraded R from 2.5.0 to 2.6.0. With the new build, I have stumbled upon an unpleasant problem: I can no longer install packages from CRAN through a transparent proxy. With the previous version, I simply added to /usr/lib/R/etc/Renviron the following line and it functioned like a charm: ## Proxy settings http_proxy="SERVER:3128"

Hi, I'd like to read a shapefile into a Map object. This is exactly what read.shape{maptools} is suppoed to do, according to the documentation I found in the link below. However, this doesn't seem to work library(maptools)x <- read.shape(system.file("shapes/sids.shp", package="maptools")[1])Error: could not find function "read.shape" I haven't

A few years back, I wrote some code to plot maps with the maptools package. Now I am trying to reproduce my results, only to find out that maptools has been updated and my code no longer works. I've been able to fix the first part of it by forcing spb <- maptools:::read.shape("/home/sasha/Documents/maps/spb.shp") (as read.shape has been deprecated) but now when I do plot(spb,

Hello all, How can I configure yum to download updates when I need to authenticate to a Microsoft Forefront proxy?? I have tried to configure http_proxy variable as a "http_proxy="http://DOMAIN\\user:passwd at proxy:port/", but it doesn't works ... I have tried to set http_user and http_passwd also without luck. Thanks.

Hi all, my uni has recently switched to using a proxy (with password) for accessing Web pages outside the uni. I have since found that "update packages" etc no longer seem to work from R. I have tried to fix this problem in two ways:- 1) renaming internet2.dll to internet.dll in the "Modeules" folder and proceeding as usual. When I tried "update packages" from the

I would like to use the getBioC.R script from http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R to install the biobase packages. Unfortunately, url() and download.file() die when trying to talk to my proxy: > getBioC("exprs") connect: Cannot assign requested address unable to connect to 'gproxy1.pfizer.com'. connect: Cannot assign requested address unable to connect to

I would like to use the getBioC.R script from http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R to install the biobase packages. Unfortunately, url() and download.file() die when trying to talk to my proxy: > getBioC("exprs") connect: Cannot assign requested address unable to connect to 'gproxy1.pfizer.com'. connect: Cannot assign requested address unable to connect to

OK, I really am struggling with this one! Forgive me if I am being stupid.... I am running R 1.7.1 on Suse Linux 8.1. I connect to the internet through a proxy so I have: IAHC-LINUX03:~ # echo $http_proxy wwwcache.bbsrc.ac.uk:8080 IAHC-LINUX03:~ # echo $HTTP_PROXY wwwcache.bbsrc.ac.uk:8080 just in case ;-) SO, i go into R and I get: >