r-cas/ryacas

How to connect yacas with rstudio

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esther1262 commented

Hi,
I already downloaded Yacas on my windows. I first installed package Ryacas directly from Rstudio but no yacas functions can be run.
I later ran this command and got the following errors:

> devtools::install_github("r-cas/ryacas", build_opts = c("--no-resave-data", "--no-manual"))
Downloading GitHub repo r-cas/ryacas@HEAD
√  checking for file 'C:\Users\Esther\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpEpL65w\remotes58d46bf01207\r-cas-ryacas-ea52235/DESCRIPTION' (684ms)
-  preparing 'Ryacas': (1.4s)
√  checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... 
-  cleaning src
-  checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts (1s)
-  checking for empty or unneeded directories (501ms)
-  building 'Ryacas_1.1.3.9002.tar.gz'
   
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Esther/Documents/R/win-library/4.1’ as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package 'Ryacas' ...
ERROR: cannot remove earlier installation, is it in use?
* removing 'C:/Users/Esther/Documents/R/win-library/4.1/Ryacas'
* restoring previous 'C:/Users/Esther/Documents/R/win-library/4.1/Ryacas'
Warning in file.copy(lp, dirname(pkgdir), recursive = TRUE, copy.date = TRUE) :
  problem copying C:\Users\Esther\Documents\R\win-library\4.1\00LOCK-Ryacas\Ryacas\libs\x64\Ryacas.dll to C:\Users\Esther\Documents\R\win-library\4.1\Ryacas\libs\x64\Ryacas.dll: Permission denied
Warning message:
In i.p(...) :
  installation of package ‘C:/Users/ESTHER~1/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpEpL65w/file58d4192555cc/Ryacas_1.1.3.9002.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

How to run/install ryacas?

Thanks

mikldk commented

@esther1262 Would you be willing to contribute with your solution (if others stumble across the same problem it might help them)?

ggrothendieck commented

It was also posted and resolved on SO. It seems it was a combination of a bad R install, use of outdated documentation and confusion between Ryacas and Ryacas0. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71279994/unable-to-install-yacas-with-rstudio

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esther1262 commented

I think R’s installation wasnt a problem. There are two ryacas packages, one for the old commands. I didn’t install the old version. Also in R, we have to do something like yacas(“function”) instead of calling the function directly. I am still struggling on how to use it with r interface but I think I’m on the right track.

mikldk commented

I think R’s installation wasnt a problem. There are two ryacas packages, one for the old commands. I didn’t install the old version. Also in R, we have to do something like yacas(“function”) instead of calling the function directly. I am still struggling on how to use it with r interface but I think I’m on the right track.

Have you read the "Getting started" vignette: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Ryacas/vignettes/getting-started.html? There are more vignettes available from https://cran.r-project.org/package=Ryacas.

esther1262 commented

Yes I later did. Thanks. There were many references when I googled. I got messed up a little. (I actually have some coding questions, I will ask in a separate issue. )

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