R help - Nov 2011 - Suggested alternative to rgdal for Mac for making bubble plots with R 2.14?

I'm new to making bubble plots with R, so I was going to try the following:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2009-August/006258.html

Unfortunately, it looks like rgdal is not part of 2.14.  I'm not sure if it
was the mirror I selected or something else is going on.

> install.packages("rgdal")
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
  package ‘rgdal’ is not available (for R version 2.14.0)

Thanks for any suggested current alternative methods for creating bubble plots
in R 2.14.


I'm using the following set up:
R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)

Thanks again.
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Mr Rupert,

On 23 November 2011 02:32, Jason Rupert <jasonkrupert at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Thanks for any suggested current alternative methods for creating bubble
plots in R 2.14.
http://sas-and-r.blogspot.com/2010/09/example-85-bubble-plots-part-3.html

cat = rep(c(1, 2, 3), each=20)
abscissa = rnorm(60)
ordinate = rnorm(60)
z = runif(60)
plotcolor = ifelse(cat==1, "green", ifelse(cat==2, "red",
"blue"))
symbols(ordinate, abscissa, circles=z, inches=1/5, bg=plotcolor)

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Jason Rupert <jasonkrupert <at> yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> I'm new to making bubble plots with R, so I was going to try the
following:
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2009-August/006258.html
> 
> Unfortunately, it looks like rgdal is not part of 2.14.?? I'm not sure
if it
was the mirror I selected or
> something else is going on. 
Please use Prof. Brian Ripley's rgdal OSX binary package from CRAN extras.
Do:

setRepositories(ind=1:2)
install.packages("rgdal")

and it will be installed. Questions about spatial packages may be answered more
precisely and quickly on R-sig-geo.

Hope this helps,

Roger

> 
> > install.packages("rgdal")
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
> ?? package ???rgdal??? is not available (for R version 2.14.0)
> 
> Thanks for any suggested current alternative methods for creating bubble
plots
in R 2.14. 
> 
>