Hi Folks, Does anyone know if (apparently not on CRAN) there is any archive of older versions of R packages? Or is it the case that not only are old versions on CRAN humanesly destoyed, but all older versions out in the wild are hunted down and shot? (I can find older versions of the R "core", but not of other packages). With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 23-Aug-07 Time: 19:37:30 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
On 23 August 2007 at 19:37, (Ted Harding) wrote: | Does anyone know if (apparently not on CRAN) there is | any archive of older versions of R packages? See $CRAN/src/contrib/Archive/ which has further subdirectories A to Z each of which contain all known versions of all packages starting with that letter. BTW, I used these file listing (directly parsed from R via a call to 'links -dump' and a trivial awk filter) to construct a rough `CRAN growth curve' to motivate my talk at UseR! about our efforts of turning all of CRAN and BioC into .deb packages. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk wrote:> Hi Folks, > > Does anyone know if (apparently not on CRAN) there is > any archive of older versions of R packages?Yes. On CRAN. At the bottom of the page listing all the packages there is a section --------------------- Related Directories Archive Previous versions of the packages listed above. --------------------- linking to [CRAN]/src/contrib/Archive -thomas