Error: "package 'genomatic' does not have a namespace and should be reinstalled
<p>I have just enough experience with R to get some things done, but not enough to actually troubleshoot a problem like this. I also would not call myself a programmer, though at some point that would be great. In case it matters, I usually use Rstudio.</p>

<p>I am trying to solve a problem where I have different entries for the same sample (microsatellites with different runs) that I need to condense into one line of information for each sample. I found the perfect package to solve my problem (package = genomatic). The trouble is, that I could not install it for use with the most recent version of R because it was created before version 3.0. So I downloaded version 2.15.3 and am working with the regular bare bones console. </p>

<p>Genomatic was not available through the install packages list, so I downloaded a zip file for Windows from here: <a href="http://www2.uaem.mx/r-mirror/web/packages/genomatic/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www2.uaem.mx/r-mirror/web/packages/genomatic/index.html</a> </p>

<p>and then followed the directions from pages 6-7 in the manual (link below) to install it from my own machine.
<a href="http://people.oregonstate.edu/~knausb/software/Genomatic_users_manual_v05.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://people.oregonstate.edu/~knausb/software/Genomatic_users_manual_v05.pdf</a></p>

<p>It appeared to install just fine, however when I go to load the library, I get the following error:</p>

<pre><code>&gt; library(genomatic)
Loading required package: tcltk
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
Error in library(genomatic) : 
  package ‘genomatic’ does not have a NAMESPACE and should be re-installed
</code></pre>

<p>I looked through the forum, but could not find an answer for how to fix this. Here is the session info:</p>

<pre><code>&gt; sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.3 (2013-03-01)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] tcltk     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
[8] base   
</code></pre>

<p>Can somebody help me to make this work?</p>

<p>Thanks!
Liz</p>

<p>EDIT to add: I did try to reinstall, but ended up with the same results.</p>