在R中安装网格：“错误：无效的Description文件”

Question

我正在使用R 3.0.2，并尝试安装grid软件包，如下所示：

install.packages("lattice")

这导致以下错误：

Error : Invalid DESCRIPTION file

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

我该如何解决？

由于DESCRIPTION似乎包含元信息，因此我不明白为什么这会阻止我安装lattice软件包。

更新：

我已经安装了点阵，但由于某些依赖性，需要更新的版本。 对晶格使用update.packages()返回与上述相同的错误。 我想知道较新的晶格版本是否与新的R版本不兼容？

看到BondedDust引用了Description，我开始研究它，似乎新包在DESCRIPTION文件中有一个Priority字段，但是旧版的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

我尝试使用Priority: recommended行更新旧的Description文件并重新加载R，但是仍然

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

完整的错误消息如下：

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修复了此错误。

Answer 2

我通过删除DESCRIPTION文件中的“ Priority：recommend”这一行来解决了