Bioequivalence and Bioavailability Forum

Dear Users,

found an interesting paper:

Zheng C, Wang J, Zhao L. Testing bioequivalence for multiple formulations with power and sample size calculations. Pharmaceut Stat. 2012;11(4):334–41. doi:10.1002/pst.1522

The authors published a package “MATOST” (zip-file, manual, and source code here). After updating/installing required packages from CRAN (MASS, MCMCpack, mvtnorm, cubature, R2Cuba) I tried to install MATOST from the local zip. I got:

Loading required package: MASS
Loading required package: MCMCpack
Loading required package: coda
Loading required package: lattice
##
## Markov Chain Monte Carlo Package (MCMCpack)
## Copyright (C) 2003-2012 Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn, and Jong Hee Park
##
## Support provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation
## (Grants SES-0350646 and SES-0350613)
##
Loading required package: mvtnorm
Loading required package: cubature
Loading required package: R2Cuba
Error in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE) :
  package ‘MATOST’ does not have a NAMESPACE and should be re-installed

OK, why not. Both rm(list=ls(all=TRUE)) / re-install and a second try in a new R-session (new download; checked for binary identity) gave the same error. Before I contact the authors can someone of you give it a try? THX.

@Detlew: I think you experienced a similar namespace-issue with randomizeBE? MATOST was built under 2.11.1 and I’m testing with 2.15.1. AFAIK all packages must have a namespace since 2.14.0.