R help - Oct 2009 - Why is package RandomFields not listed in the R 2.10.0 Packages list under Packages, Install package(s)...?

The package list was accessed October 28, 10:13 am MST using Windows XP and
mirror USA (CA 1).

Bill Morphet, Ph.D.

It appearred to be available from within my Mac OSX system so I went  
to CRAN. Appears it fails the automated checks for Windows devices:

http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_RandomFields.html

You are supposed to direct such questions to the package maintainer.


On Oct 28, 2009, at 12:41 PM, morphwj at comcast.net wrote:
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> The package list was accessed October 28, 10:13 am MST using Windows  
> XP and mirror USA (CA 1).
>
> Bill Morphet, Ph.D.
-- 

David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT

On 10/28/2009 12:41 PM, morphwj at comcast.net wrote:
> The package list was accessed October 28, 10:13 am MST using Windows XP and
mirror USA (CA 1).
That list comes from CRAN.  You can go there and follow the links 
through contributed packages until you get to it at

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RandomFields/index.html

and then look at CRAN checks:   and see that on most platforms it is 
generating errors, so the binary of the package can't be built.  You 
could help by figuring out what the error is and telling the author how 
to fix it, if you're really interested; otherwise you'll have to wait 
until he finds the time to fix it on his own.

Duncan Murdoch

On Oct 28, 2009, at 1:17 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
> It appearred to be available from within my Mac OSX system so I went  
> to CRAN. Appears it fails the automated checks for Windows devices:
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_RandomFields.html
And looking at that compile check again I see that the Windows  
versions for the standard release versions of R  should be available.  
Further checking at the CA 1 mirror shows RandomFields is available.  
Sometimes packages are temporarily unavailable, so you should always  
check other mirrors or check back in a bit before posing the
question.
>
> You are supposed to direct such questions to the package maintainer.
>
>
> On Oct 28, 2009, at 12:41 PM, morphwj at comcast.net wrote:
>
>>
>> The package list was accessed October 28, 10:13 am MST using  
>> Windows XP and mirror USA (CA 1).
>>
>> Bill Morphet, Ph.D.
> -- 
David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT