R help - Feb 2009 - Eror message: not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0

> Hello R-help,
> 
> 
> We are running R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03). I believe that I got it
> from www.sunfreeware.com. A number of the packages that we attempt to
> download from http://www.r-project.org/  give us the error message
> below when we attempt to run them.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I need to do to gett these packages to run
> properly?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> RP
> 
> > require("lars")
> Loading required package: lars
> Error in library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE,
> logical.return = TRUE,  : 
>   'lars' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0?
> 
> 
> They also all have this information in common when I run the library
> command (I've added the BOLD for emphasis).
> 
> FinTS                   ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> KernSmooth              Functions for kernel smoothing for Wand &
> Jones
>                         (1995)
> MASS                    Main Package of Venables and Ripley's MASS
> Matrix                  ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> R2HTML                  ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> RWinEdt                 ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> base                    The R Base Package
> boot                    Bootstrap R (S-Plus) Functions (Canty)
> bootstrap               ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> car                     ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> class                   Functions for Classification
> cluster                 Cluster Analysis Extended Rousseeuw et al.
> codetools               Code Analysis Tools for R
> datasets                The R Datasets Package
> foreign                 ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> gplots                  ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> grDevices               The R Graphics Devices and Support for Colours
>                         and Fonts
> graphics                The R Graphics Package
> grid                    The Grid Graphics Package
> lars                    ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> lattice                 Lattice Graphics
> methods                 Formal Methods and Classes
> mgcv                    GAMs with GCV smoothness estimation and GAMMs
>                         by REML/PQL
> nlme                    Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models
> nnet                    Feed-forward Neural Networks and Multinomial
>                         Log-Linear Models
> pastecs                 ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> pps                     ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> prettyR                 ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> rcompgen                Completion generator for R
> rpart                   Recursive Partitioning
> sampling                ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> spatial                 Functions for Kriging and Point Pattern
>                         Analysis
> splines                 Regression Spline Functions and Classes
> stats                   The R Stats Package
> stats4                  Statistical Functions using S4 Classes
> survey                  ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> survival                Survival analysis, including penalised
>                         likelihood.
> tcltk                   Tcl/Tk Interface
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Is there any reason you can't just install an up-to-date version of R (R
2.8.1), from cran.us.r-project.org (or your favorite mirror, see
www.r-project.org) and see if that fixes the problem?  Installing R on SunOS
is not quite the breeze that it is on MacOS, Windows, or Linux, but it's not
that bad ... and you are much more likely to get help from the list if you
make it worth people's while to help you by either (1) explaining why you
are stuck with an old version [regulatory compliance/mission-critical old R
software] or (2) installing recent R and showing that the problem persists.

 Ben Bolker


Powers, Randall - BLS wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> Hello R-help,
>> 
>> 
>> We are running R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03). I believe that I got it
>> from www.sunfreeware.com. A number of the packages that we attempt to
>> download from http://www.r-project.org/  give us the error message
>> below when we attempt to run them.
>> 
> 
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