R help - May 2011 - problems getting the splm package installed

Dear R-project members,


I'm a newbie in R and I'm trying to install the "splm" package
to analyze spatial panel data. I have the R x64 2.12.0 beta version installed in
my computer. When I try to install the package from within R typing
">install.packages("splm",
repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")", I get the error message

"Warning: unable to access index for repository
http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.12
Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
 package ?splm? is not available"


If I download the package from the splm project page on R-Forge and unzip it to
the library, when I call ">library(splm)" I get the following error

"Error in library(splm) : 'splm' is not a valid installed
package".

I don't know what to do to get this package installed. Sorry bothering you
with this, but I would appreciate very much a little help.


Thank you in advance!


Sincerely

Rafael Terra
Econ PhD candidate

On May 25, 2011, at 10:21 PM, Rafael Terra wrote:
> Dear R-project members,
>
>
> I'm a newbie in R and I'm trying to install the "splm"
package to
> analyze spatial panel data. I have the R x64 2.12.0 beta version  
> installed in my computer. When I try to install the package from  
> within R typing ">install.packages("splm",
repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org
> ")", I get the error message
>
> "Warning: unable to access index for repository
http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.12
It's unable to find it because it's not there. Your version of R is  
out of date and the only versions supported by packages at r-forge at  
the moment are 2.13 and 2.14.
> I don't know what to do to get this package installed. Sorry  
> bothering you with this, but I would appreciate very much a little  
> help.
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