[Rcpp-devel] Warning 'Rcpp’ is not available -- package installation problem on a cluster

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 28 January 2011 at 11:30, Marius Hofert wrote:
| Dear Rcpp experts,
| 
| My goal was to install optimx() on a cluster ("Brutus", ETH Zurich). I installed other packages there with no problem. On installing optimx() I received the error message:
| 
| ## ==== start ====
| 
| ** preparing package for lazy loading
| Error : package 'Rcpp' 0.8.2 was found, but >= 0.8.5 is required by 'minqa'
| ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘minqa’
| * removing ‘/cluster/home/math/hofertj/library/minqa’
| 
| The downloaded packages are in
| 	‘/tmp/RtmpauAqix/downloaded_packages’
| Warning message:
| In install.packages("minqa", lib = "/cluster/home/math/hofertj/library") :
|  installation of package 'minqa' had non-zero exit status
| 
| ## ==== end ====
| 
| so my next goal was to install the latest version of Rcpp. On doing so, I obtained:
| 
| ## ==== start ====
| 
| Warning message:
| In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
|  package ‘Rcpp’ is not available
| 
| ## ==== end ====
| 
| I found an article [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3391631/installing-rcpp-in-r-2-10-on-ubuntu] in which Dirk suggested to try a different mirror. But I get the same message with other mirrors, e.g., install.packages("Rcpp", repos="http://cran.us.r-project.org").
| 
| Why is package 'Rcpp' not available?

What OS?

What R version?

CRAN itself keeps only the newest package; we sometimes encode things like
'Depends: R (>= 2.12.0)' and I suspect you are running an older R.  I would
try upgrade R, or if you cannot, manually fetch an older Rcpp.

In summary, this is likely to be a local admin'ing issue. I am CC'ing Martin
who may know where to point you to.

Thanks, Dirk

| 
| Cheers,
| 
| Marius
| 
| 
| 
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