Error with install.packages("rim")

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rim provides an interface to Maxima for R. Maxima is a powerful and fairly complete computer algebra system.

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Error with install.packages("rim") #21

Closed ceworley closed 2 years ago

ceworley commented 3 years ago

I ran install.packages("rim") in the console of my local rstudio. I got an error:

** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘rim’:
 .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for 'rim', details:
  call: private$run()
  error: Couldn't find available port
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed

I know that is not much to go on, but any ideas?

rcst commented 3 years ago

Hi, sorry for the delay. Can you post your sessionInfo(), please? Does this install from CRAN? What's your OS?

Thanks for reporting!

rcst commented 3 years ago

rim automatically starts maxima in "server mode" and communicates with it via a socket. For this a port needs to be specified. Now, a port is chose automatically: it starts trying with port 27182 and if it isn't available, it tests the next one and so forth up until, well the end, 65536.

Do you have a firewall that's blocking?