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mvtnorm fails to load in MS r-client version 3.4.3

When trying to load the library seriation in MS R-Client in Windows, I get the following message:

The library seriation fails to load with the following message:

library(seriation) # package for reordering a distance matrix Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘seriation’ in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]): there is no package called ‘mvtnorm’ In addition: Warning message: package ‘seriation’ was built under R version 3.4.4

The current version of mvtnorm, 1.0-9 requires r version 3.5 or greater. I have tried installing the package from source from several versions as well as several versions from source here: https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/mvtnorm/

The error message from these attempts is:

  • installing source package 'mvtnorm' ... ** package 'mvtnorm' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** libs Warning: running command 'make -f "C:/PROGRA~1/MIE74D~1/RCLIEN~1/R_SERVER/etc/x64/Makeconf" -f "C:/PROGRA~1/MIE74D~1/RCLIEN~1/R_SERVER/share/make/winshlib.mk" SHLIB="mvtnorm.dll" SHLIB_LIBADD='$(FLIBS)' WIN=64 TCLBIN=64 OBJECTS="C_FORTRAN_interface.o miwa.o mvt.o mvtnorm-init.o tvpack.o"' had status 127 ERROR: compilation failed for package 'mvtnorm'

  • removing 'D:/Users/KNel/Documents/R/win-library/3.4/mvtnorm' In R CMD INSTALL Warning messages: 1: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/MIE74D~1/RCLIEN~1/R_SERVER/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "D:\Users\KNel\Documents\R\win-library\3.4" "C:/Users/KNel/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpQRtAJK/downloaded_packages/mvtnorm_1.0-6.tar.gz"' had status 1 2: In utils::install.packages(...) : installation of package ‘C:/Users/KNel/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpQRtAJK/downloaded_packages/mvtnorm_1.0-6.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

Any ideas?

Solution

  • mvtnorm starting 1.0.9 requires R >= 3.5.0 (per package info https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mvtnorm/index.html)

    So if you're trying to install it for R 3.4.3, you'd need mvtnorm version 1.0.8, which is available from CRAN archive:

    install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/mvtnorm/mvtnorm_1.0-8.tar.gz", repos=NULL)

    Ref: https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/mvtnorm/versions/1.0-8