R help - Aug 2012 - Find and install old package to R 2.11 in UNIX

Hi, I'm having trouble installing and using the 'foreign' package in
R on a
UNIX machine.
> sessionInfo()
     R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
     sparc-sun-solaris2.10

     locale:
     [1] C

     attached base packages:
     [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

Is there a way to find and install an old 'foreign' package that works
with
my machine?

Does such a method generalize to finding other out-of-date packages for my
machine?

Thanks!
Kevin

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On Aug 16, 2012, at 4:33 PM, Kevin Goulding wrote:
> Hi, I'm having trouble installing and using the 'foreign'
package in
> R on a
> UNIX machine.
>
>> sessionInfo()
>     R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
>     sparc-sun-solaris2.10
>
>     locale:
>     [1] C
>
>     attached base packages:
>     [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods    
> base
>
> Is there a way to find and install an old 'foreign' package that  
> works with
> my machine?
>
> Does such a method generalize to finding other out-of-date packages  
> for my
> machine?
Yes, there is a general method. Install from archived package as source.

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive


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