It looks like I had been missing an update needed for Ubuntu systems. All I
needed was the following. Thank you.
update.packages(lib.loc = "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library")
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Jean V Adams <jvad...@usgs.gov> wrote:
>
> That's interesting. My function matrix() looks like this:
>
> function (data = NA, nrow = 1, ncol = 1, byrow = FALSE, dimnames = NULL)
> {
> if (is.object(data) || !is.atomic(data))
> data <- as.vector(data)
> .Internal(matrix(data, nrow, ncol, byrow, dimnames, missing(nrow),
> missing(ncol)))
> }
> <environment: namespace:base>
>
> I'm running Windows R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13).
>
> Jean
>
>
> From:
> Robert Pfister <rw...@virginia.edu>
> To:
> Jean V Adams <jvad...@usgs.gov>
> Cc:
> r-help@r-project.org
> Date: 08/01/2011 01:35 PM Subject: Re: [R] 5 arguments passed to
> .Internal(matrix) which requires 7
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Yes, even if I only run the command matrix(0,30,10) I get the error. I am
> running R with Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) with R version:
>
> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
>
> When I check the function matrix, I can see that it is only passing five
> arguments to the function .Internal() (shown below).
>
>
> function (data = NA, nrow = 1, ncol = 1, byrow = FALSE, dimnames = NULL)
> {
> data <- as.vector(data)
> if (missing(nrow))
> nrow <- ceiling(length(data)/ncol)
> else if (missing(ncol))
>
> ncol <- ceiling(length(data)/nrow)
> .Internal(matrix(data, nrow, ncol, byrow, dimnames))
> }
> <environment: namespace:base>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Jean V Adams
> <*jvad...@usgs.gov*<jvad...@usgs.gov>>
> wrote:
>
> Robert,
>
> What code did you run to get that error?
>
> Do you get the error if the only code that you run is ...
> matrix(0, 30, 10)
>
> You gave three arguments to matrix, which requires none, but can take up to
> five.
> In the function matrix there is a call to .Internal(matrix) which requires
> 7 arguments.
> See ...
> matrix
>
> Jean
>
>
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>
> Jean V. Adams
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>
>
>
> From: Robert Pfister <*rw...@virginia.edu* <rw...@virginia.edu>> To: *
> r-help@r-project.org* <r-help@r-project.org> Date: 08/01/2011 11:56 AM
> Subject: [R] 5 arguments passed to .Internal(matrix) which requires 7 Sent
> by: *r-help-boun...@r-project.org* <r-help-boun...@r-project.org>
>
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am having a problem with the function matrix. Specifically, when I pass
> three arguments (two more being instantiated in the function), I get the
> following error message:
>
> Error in matrix(0, 30, 10) :
> 5 arguments passed to .Internal(matrix) which requires 7
>
>
> I looked into it, and someone has suggested that this may be the function
> from an old version of R. I recently changed my source path from the lucid
> version to the maverick version and installed all of the R packages I need
> like so, but why would this change the matrix() function? Also, how does R
> know that I passed five arguments (only three being given) if the matrix()
> function is supposed to take seven arguments?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Robert
>
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