Question

when loading this project:

(defproject incanter "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT"
  :description "FIXME: write description"
  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.3.0"]
                 [incanter "1.3.0"]]
  :dev-dependencies [[swank-clojure/swank-clojure "1.4.0"]])

and using it like this:

 (use '(incanter stats))    

I get this cryptic error message:

$ does not exist
  [Thrown class java.lang.IllegalAccessError]

... lots-o-stack ...

Answer 1

I noticed that the name of your project is the same as one of the dependencies. Assuming you are using the Leiningen defaults, given by the FIXME in your project map, you most likely have the file src/incanter/core.clj in your project.

Given all that, I was able to reproduce the error by creating a new project with the name “incanter” and invoking the same command you did inside a REPL. I then renamed the projects “incanter” namespace to something else (also changing it in core.clj) and invoked the use command in the REPL again. This time I didn’t receive the error.

Side note: I was able to reproduce this issue with out any :dev-dependencies.