title: Install gdata failed (on 64 bit Linux)
body: <p>i was working on a R Script, which uses gplots Library. Therefore at some point of the script</p>
  
  <pre><code>library(gplots)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>is called. This works great using a 32 bit linux box (Linux an 3.2.0-33-generic-pae 52-Ubuntu SMP i686 GNU/Linux, Ubuntu 12.04).<br>
  However, I tried running the script on a 64 bit machine (Linux sim 2.6.38-15-server 66-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux;Ubuntu 11.04) and now it throws errors:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error in library(gplots) : there is no package called 'gplots'
  Calls: generateHeatmap -&gt; library
  Execution halted
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So when I try to install gplots it raises another error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; install.packages('gplots', type="source", dependencies=T)
  ERROR: dependency ‘gdata’ is not available for package ‘gplots’
  * removing ‘/home/schaller/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/gplots’
  ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thus, I am trying to install gdata:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;install.packages('gdata', type="source", dependencies=F)
  Installing package(s) into ‘/home/schaller/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12’
  (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
  Warning message:
  In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
    package ‘gdata’ is not available
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've searched online for possible solutions. I Couldn't find any. However, I read that gdata is broken on current R versions in 64 bit mode. Someone posted a patched repo [1], but I couldn't use this a repo for installing gdata.
  So this means there is no possibility for using this package on a 64 bit machine for now?</p>
  
  <p>[1] - <a href="https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-April/236966.html" rel="nofollow">https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-April/236966.html</a></p>
  
  <p>Further info: R version 2.12.1</p>
  
  <hr>
  
  <p>ANSWER: Updating r-base to the current version fixed the problem.</p>