Problems Running ReadMe Demo Code - Readme

21 Jul 2011

Greetings,

I followed these steps to install ReadMe on Ubuntu 11.10:

   1.    sudo apt-get install r-base
   2.    download the following tar files from
   http://r.iq.harvard.edu/src/contrib/
      -        http://r.iq.harvard.edu/src/contrib/VA_0.9-2.10.tar.gz
      -        http://r.iq.harvard.edu/src/contrib/ReadMe_0.99834.tar.gz
   3.    sudo R CMD INSTALL VA_0.9-2.10.tar.gz
   4.    sudo R CMD INSTALL ReadMe_0.99834.tar.gz

R is installed. When I am inside the R command prompt (>) at the terminal, I
run:
library()
and get the following snippet:
Packages in library '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library':

ReadMe                  ReadMe: Software for Automated Content Analysis
VA                      Verbal Autopsies

Which indicates that both VA and ReadMe are installed.

However, when I try to run readme commands, here is what happens:
...
  readme() Error: could not find function
"readme"
...
  undergrad() Error: could not find function
"undergrad"
...
  demo(clinton) Error in demo(clinton) : No demo
found for topic 'clinton'

I am new to ReadMe and R, but familiar with Unix. Does anyone know how I can
get access to the readme() function?

Many thanks,

Eric Gustavson