R help - Sep 2010 - How to update an old unsupported package

Hi all,

I have a package  that is specific to a task I was repetitively using a 
few years ago.
I now needed to run it again with new data.

However I am told it was built with an older version or R and will not work.
How can I tweak the package so it will run on 11.1?

It was a one-off product and has not been maintained.
Is there a way to "unpackage" it and repackage it to work?

I tried just changing the date and R version in the DESCRIPTION file but 
that did not help.

Tnx

Bruce

On 26.09.2010 19:19, Neotropical bat risk assessments
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a package that is specific to a task I was repetitively using a
> few years ago.
> I now needed to run it again with new data.
>
> However I am told it was built with an older version or R and will not
> work.
> How can I tweak the package so it will run on 11.1?

You probably mean R-2.11.1?

> It was a one-off product and has not been maintained.
> Is there a way to "unpackage" it and repackage it to work?
Well, take the source package, run
   tar xfz packagename_version.tar.gz
and you have the sources that you can modify and repackage and reinstall 
afterwards.

See the manual "Writing R Extensions" fir detaiks.

Best,
Uwe Ligges


> I tried just changing the date and R version in the DESCRIPTION file but
> that did not help.
>
> Tnx
>
> Bruce
>
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On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Neotropical bat risk assessments
<neotropical.bats at gmail.com> wrote:
> ?Hi all,
>
> I have a package ?that is specific to a task I was repetitively using a few
> years ago.
> I now needed to run it again with new data.
>
> However I am told it was built with an older version or R and will not
work.
> How can I tweak the package so it will run on 11.1?
>
> It was a one-off product and has not been maintained.
> Is there a way to "unpackage" it and repackage it to work?
>
> I tried just changing the date and R version in the DESCRIPTION file but
> that did not help.
>
> Tnx
>
> Bruce
>
You can:

(1) use the old version of R that you previously used and under which
it presumably still works.  Old versions of R are available on CRAN.

or

(2) rebuild and install the old package from source:

Rcmd INSTALL mypackage_1.1-1.tar.gz

If R has changed so much that it will no longer build, install or run
under the latest version of R then you will need to fix up the source
code and rebuild and reinstall the package.

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I am successfully performing a correspondence analysis using the commands:

	NonLuxury <-
read.table("/Users/myUserName/Desktop/nonLuxury.data.txt")
	ca(NonLuxury)

I would like to store the results to a data frame so that I can write them to
disk using write.table.  I have tried several things such as:

	df <- data.frame(ca(NonLuxury))
	df <- data.frame(data(ca(NonLuxury)))
	etc.

...but clearly this is incorrect as it generates an error message. 

Is it possible to store the results of a CA to a dataframe, and if so, what is
the correct way to do this?

Thanks in advance to all for any info.


-Vik

My pleasure. As a part of R team we are always here to help each other. 

Best Regards,

Bhupendrasinh Thakre
Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 22, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Vik Rubenfeld <vikr at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Bhupendrashinh, thanks again for telling me about RWeka.  That made a big
difference in a job I was working on this week.
> 
> Have a great weekend.
> 
> 
> -Vik