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Dear developeRs, in the last month I mentioned in several discussions on R-help that Kurt and I were working on tools for "CRAN Task Views" which should help to structure the fast-growing list of packages on CRAN. Now the first version of a package called ctv (for CRAN Task Views) is available from CRAN and also two frist drafts for such views can be seen at

Hello, I am just beginning to use R, after several years of using S-Plus (with mixed success). I saw a recommendation on another mailing list for the Environmetrics and Spatial Task Views, as a good way for a new user to get started actually using R. The Task Views page at CRAN says: "To automatically install these views, the ctv package needs to be installed, e.g., via

When I try to install hte Econometrics view I get the following error: CRAN task view Econometrics not available in: install.views("Econometrics") I have already install the ctv package and loaded it before trying to install the above... Any ideas as to what's going on?

Cran task views seems to be a "once-per-session" process -- the first attempt to access views in a (RGui for Windows) session works, but subsequent attempts fail. There is a noticeably long pause before the failing call returns. Example session with two calls to "available.views" follows, but similar effects have been observed with two calls to "install.views" and

CRAN task views are useful, but they seem difficult to write and maintain because the XML format is rather limited (no sectioning) and the <packagelist> must be maintained manually. They are also difficult to read because the generated html and .css used are extremely basic, giving an overly dense page. Are there any markdown-like tools for writing a CTV? Is it possible to apply a

Dear all, Wouldn't it be helpful if the install.views install.packages update.packages had a "downloadonly=TRUE" flag which would allow us to download the packages and install them later (or put them in a USB stick and take them for installation on anothe PC). I am behind a firewall (Bank) and I have serious plroblem updating R or installing views (Finance, Econometrics etc.

Dear Willem, Personally, I use the R-forge project for the distribution CTV : https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/ctv/ It?s an alternative option to github. Regards, Christophe --------------------------------------- Christophe Dutang LMM, UdM, Le Mans, France web: http://dutangc.free.fr Le 23 janv. 2015 ? 12:49, Luca Braglia <lbraglia at gmail.com> a ?crit : > Hi Willem >

Hi all, Sorry if this doesn't end up in the thread. Tobias Verbeke forwarded that e-mail to me, because he thought I would be interested in maintaining the Programming Tools CTV. I wasn't subscribed to R-devel yet, but I would indeed like to volunteer to maintain the Programming Tools CTV. It will be my first time creating a CTV, so some guidance on getting it setup will be appreciated.

Folks, I am using R 2.1.1 on Apple OS X 10.3. Earlier, I used to say $ sudo R > update.packages() and all the packages used to get installed. For several weeks, I noticed that nothing has been coming through. I used the R-for-Mac graphics console and I find that there are many packages where new versions have come out which I don't have. Is something wrong with update.packages()? I

I have this problem with loading RPyGeo package when using update.views. How can I fix this. I have tried to use other CRAN mirrors with the same result. Below is a copy of my session. ---------------------session----------------------- R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16) Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) R is free

Hi, I am running Debian Sid. I am having trouble with the R packages. Executing 'help()' or 'demo()' launches 'most' with no text. 'help.start()' works properly. When I try to install a package, I get the following problem: ********************************************************************* > install.packages("ctv") Installing package(s) into

I'd strongly second the notion of using github. The biggest advantage is that others can easily contribute changes through pull requests which lifts much of the burden from your shoulders. Hadley On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:49 AM, Luca Braglia <lbraglia at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Willem > > thanks for volounteering. > > To the best of my knowledge (regarding the machinery

Hi Sir When I use install.packages("cvt') for installing packages using R 2.9.2 I have the following problem > install.packages("ctv") Warning in install.packages("ctv") : argument 'lib' is missing: using 'C:\Users\Amina\Documents/R/win-library/2.9' --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- trying URL

Dear Sir I am facing the following problems in installing packages. Would you please help in this regards? >install.packages("ctv") Warning in install.packages("ctv") : 'lib = "C:/PROGRA~2/R/R-210~1.1/library"' is not writable --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Warning: unable to access index for repository

I am getting several errors about Windows only packages when I use task views. Is this suppose to be a Windows-centric utility? Also, I am sure there must be a simple way to tell which packages are in a view, but I haven't found it. If there isn't, it would be nice to have. Paul Gilbert _______ install.views(c( "Multivariate", "Econometrics", "Finance",

Hi everybody, Excuse me for this silly question, but after searching the help archives I'm still unable to find my way to read the source code of the "biplot" function in R. I have installed the mvbutils package, and tried: > fixr(biplot) which only gives me: function (x, ...) UseMethod("biplot") with no further details.... I'd like to read the code to see if

Dear R-users, After upgrading to the recent version of R, I'm having a problem updating task views: > sessionInfo() R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] datasets utils stats graphics grDevices methods base other attached packages: [1]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Achim Zeileis <Achim.Zeileis at uibk.ac.at> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Max Kuhn wrote: > >> I've had a lot of requests for additions to the reproducible research >> task view that fall into a grey area (to me at least). >> >> For example, roxygen2 is a tool that broadly enable reproducibility >> but I see it more as

Dear Rxperts, Using R 2.8.1 and trying install.views("Cluster") getting error Error: could not find function "install.views" Please help:-( -- Oscar Oscar A. Linares Molecular Medicine Unit Bolles Harbor Monroe, Michigan [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Having just update to R 2.6.2 on my old Windows laptop I notice that the number of packages is growing exponentially and my usual approach of get-em-all may not be viable much longer. Has any thought been given to dividing "contributed" binaries into a recommended set, perhaps a couple of hundred, and the remained. That way one could install the recommended ones routinely and add in