[Resend the stuff below since initial one has been blocked from R-help.]
I have moved the "old" Matrix_0.98-7.zip to the main repository for
the
meantime.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [R] no package 'Matrix' at the repositories
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:45:19 +0100
From: Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Organization: Fachbereich Statistik, Universitaet Dortmund
To: Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw at merck.com>
CC: 'Sean Davis' <sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov>, Spencer Graves
<spencer.graves at pdf.com>, r-help <R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>,
Douglas
Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu>
References: <39B6DDB9048D0F4DAD42CB26AAFF0AFAFED597 at
usctmx1106.merck.com>
Liaw, Andy wrote:
> If you are installing from Windows, the current version of Matrix
apparently
> doesn't build automatically on Windows. See:
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.3/check/Matrix-check.log
>
> (That's for R-devel. There're similar problems on R-2.2.0.)
>
> I'm sure Doug is aware of this...
Indeed, Doug himself as well as others are aware of it and a solution is
not far away, as far as I can tell ...
The last working version of Matrix for R-2.2.x is (according to the
ReadMe at the repository) available at:
CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.2/last/
Uwe Ligges
> Andy
>
>
>>From: Sean Davis
>>
>>On 11/11/05 8:38 AM, "Spencer Graves" <spencer.graves at
pdf.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Yesterday, I installed R2.2.0 for Windows [Version 2.2.0
>>
>>(2005-10-06
>>
>>>r35749)]. Unfortunately,
'install.packages("Matrix")' produced the
>>>following message:
>>>
>>>Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available
>>>available, :
>>> no package 'Matrix' at the repositories
>>>
>>> I installed lme4, maps, mapproj, CircStats, scatterplot3d,
>>
>>gregmisc,
>>
>>>Hmisc without problems. To confirm, 'library(lme4)'
produced the
>>>following error:
>>>
>>>Error: package 'Matrix' required by 'lme4' could not
be found
>>>
>>> What do you suggest?
>>> Spencer Graves
>>>p.s. I get the same result using several different (US) mirrors.
>>
>>I found it here:
>>
>
> http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/src/contrib/Matrix_0.99-1.tar.gz
>
> and here:
>
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/Matrix_0.99-1.tar.gz
>
> at least. These are the only two I checked.
>
> Sean
>
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