在 R 中安装晶格："Error : Invalid DESCRIPTION file"

Question

我正在使用R 3.0.2，并试图安装点阵包，像这样:

install.packages("lattice")

这会导致以下错误:

Error : Invalid DESCRIPTION file
Invalid Priority field. Packages with priorities 'base' or 'recommended' or 'defunct-base' must already be known to R.

我该如何修复它?

由于DESCRIPTION似乎只是包含元信息，我不明白为什么这应该阻止我安装点阵包。

更新:

我已经安装了晶格，但需要一个较新的版本，由于一些依赖关系。使用update.packages()作为晶格返回与上面相同的错误。我想知道是否有可能新的格子版本与新的R版本不兼容?

看到BondedDust指的是DESCRIPTION，我开始调查它，似乎新包在DESCRIPTION文件中有一个Priority字段，但旧版本的lattice DESCRIPTION文件没有。为什么这很重要?

me@tang:~/test_lattice$ grep Priority /home/endrebak/local/anaconda/lib64/R/library/lattice/DESCRIPTION                                                                                    
me@tang:~/test_lattice$ grep Priority lattice/DESCRIPTION #New version
Priority: recommended

我已经尝试用Priority: recommended行更新旧的DESCRIPTION文件并重新加载R，但仍然

>rownames(installed.packages(priority="recommended"))
NULL
#rownames(installed.packages(priority="base")) works fine, however.

下面的完整错误信息:

trying URL 'http://cran.uib.no/src/contrib/lattice_0.20-29.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 347091 bytes (338 Kb)
* installing *source* package ‘lattice’ ...
** package ‘lattice’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error : Invalid DESCRIPTION file
Invalid Priority field.
Packages with priorities 'base' or 'recommended' or 'defunct-base' must
already be known to R.
See the information on DESCRIPTION files in section 'Creating R
packages' of the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.
ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package ‘lattice’
* removing ‘/home/me/local/anaconda/lib64/R/library/lattice’
* restoring previous ‘/home/me/local/anaconda/lib64/R/library/lattice’
The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘/tmp/Rtmptpj1ff/downloaded_packages’
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Making 'packages.html' ... done
Warning message:
In install.packages("lattice") :
  installation of package ‘lattice’ had non-zero exit status

Answer 1

我通过升级到R 3.2修复了这个错误。

Answer 2

我通过删除DESCRIPTION文件