[Rspatial-devel] Difficulty installing 'sp' (& as a result everything else).

[Edzer Pebesma]

First thing I would try is update R to 2.15.2. If that doesn't solve it,
please send the output you see after install.packages("sp")

On 11/18/2012 10:57 PM, kevinio at hush.com wrote:
> Edzer & others,
> 
> thanks for the quick response & sorry if signing K caused offense.
> I tried install.packages("sp") many times, resetting repos using
> options("repos"=c(CRAN="@CRAN@")), trying all the French, German & UK
> repos, New Zealand, Ireland (where I'm from), plus several others (in
> North & South America). As I've said, I've had no issues installing
> recently (bitops, RCurl... I installed classInt around halfways into
> my attempts installing sp).
> Response invariably is:
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>   package ‘sp’ is not available
> sessionInfo() currently produces:
> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) 
> i486-pc-linux-gnu 
> 
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_IE.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C             
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_IE.utf8        LC_COLLATE=en_IE.utf8    
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C             LC_MESSAGES=en_IE.utf8   
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_IE.utf8       LC_NAME=C                
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C              LC_TELEPHONE=C           
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_IE.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C      
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base  
>   
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] classInt_0.1-19 e1071_1.6-1     class_7.3-2    
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tcltk_2.11.1 tools_2.11.1
> On the off chance that loading RCurl would make any difference, I did
> & got the same response as previous, this time from Canada (ON).
> 
> Regards,
> Kevin. 
> 
> On Sunday November 18, 2012 at 9:38 PM, "Edzer Pebesma"  wrote:K,
> 
> In order to answer something useful, you need to specify exactly the
> steps you took, the commands you used, and also tell what
> sessionInfo()
> gives for you.
> 
> Unless your name really is K, I also appreciate signing with names -
> we're people on both ends of the line, after all.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> On 11/18/2012 10:32 PM, kevinio at hush.com wrote:
>> I cannot seem to succeed in installing 'sp' (& therefore anything
> that
>> depends on it) despite trying more than ten mirrors &
>> http://R-Forge.R-project.org from within R. I've tried to install
>> classInt & succeeded halfways through these multiple attempts to
>> install 'sp'. I'd appreciate even a confirmation that 'sp' is
>> installable from any given repos. It's likely something really
>> stupidly simple that I am or am not doing, so I would love to rule
> out
>> that for some reason 'sp' is not accessible (which I suspect is
>> extremely unlikely).
>>
>> Regards & thanks in advance,
>> K
>>
>>
>>
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