[Apologies if you have already read this message sent from another email address] Hi R-Help, I have been using R in Linux (Debian) for the past month. The usual way I install packages is through apt. Recently, a new packages "vcd" became available on CRAN. I tried installing it today and found that Debian does not seem to support this package. I also found that many other packages were unavailable. Does anyone have any recommended sites where a full list is available? If none exist, what would be the best way to move ahead in installing say the vcd package. I am still a novice in using Debian and so please forgive me if some of my questions may seem trivial for experienced users. Peter ---------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Ho, PhD. Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestao. Instituto Politecnico de Viana do Castelo. Avenida do Atlantico- Apartado 574. 4901-908 Viana do Castelo. Portugal. Tel: +351-258-819700 Ext. 1252 Email: peter at estg.ipvc.pt
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:55:29PM +0100, Peter Ho wrote:> [Apologies if you have already read this message sent from another > email address] > > Hi R-Help, > > I have been using R in Linux (Debian) for the past month. The usual way > I install packages is through apt. Recently, a new packages "vcd" became > available on CRAN. I tried installing it today and found that Debian > does not seem to support this package. I also found that many other > packages were unavailable. > Does anyone have any recommended sites where a full list is available? > If none exist, what would be the best way to move ahead in installing > say the vcd package. > > I am still a novice in using Debian and so please forgive me if some of > my questions may seem trivial for experienced users.Unfortunately, the term "package" means different things in the context of R and of Debian. A Debian package is what you install using tools like apt etc. The traditional way of installing an R package on Linux is to * have R installed from source, or install the r-base-dev Debian package * download the package archive (e.g. http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/src/contrib/vcd_0.9-0.tar.gz ) * run the R CMD INSTALL command on it, e.g. R CMD INSTALL vcd_0.9-0.tar.gz This requires having a number of development Debian packages installed, such as gcc, g77 etc (installing r-base-dev will automatically resolve such dependencies). Best regards, Jan -- +- Jan T. Kim -------------------------------------------------------+ | *NEW* email: jtk at cmp.uea.ac.uk | | *NEW* WWW: http://www.cmp.uea.ac.uk/people/jtk | *-----=< hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans >=-----*
I just installed it on a Debian 2.6.8.1 and the following R
platform i386-pc-linux-gnu
arch i386
os linux-gnu
system i386, linux-gnu
status
major 2
minor 0.1
year 2004
month 11
day 15
language R
By the way are you using apt-get install vcd. and if so why? just use
install.packages("vcd") from within R
HTH
Jean
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Peter Ho wrote:
> [Apologies if you have already read this message sent from another
> email address]
>
> Hi R-Help,
>
> I have been using R in Linux (Debian) for the past month. The usual way
> I install packages is through apt. Recently, a new packages "vcd"
became
> available on CRAN. I tried installing it today and found that Debian
> does not seem to support this package. I also found that many other
> packages were unavailable.
> Does anyone have any recommended sites where a full list is available?
> If none exist, what would be the best way to move ahead in installing
> say the vcd package.
>
> I am still a novice in using Debian and so please forgive me if some of
> my questions may seem trivial for experienced users.
>
>
>
> Peter
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Peter Ho, PhD.
> Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestao.
> Instituto Politecnico de Viana do Castelo.
> Avenida do Atlantico- Apartado 574.
> 4901-908 Viana do Castelo. Portugal.
> Tel: +351-258-819700 Ext. 1252
> Email: peter at estg.ipvc.pt
>
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