Hello, I am wanting to download the Vegan package zip file. When I tried to do this I obtained the following message: "Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. The author of Vegan advised: "This looks like a problem in CRAN. The "author of the page" is the CRAN webmaster". I clicked on the Cran webmaster link but my e-mail program only generated this address: [no address given] I was wanting to run Vegan on a computer running Windows XP. Any advice is appreciated, Regards Bob
Bob Green <bgreen <at> dyson.brisnet.org.au> writes:> I am wanting to download the Vegan package zip file. When I tried to > do this I obtained the following message: > > "Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. > The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please > inform the author of that page about the error. If you think this is > a server error, please contact the webmaster. > > The author of Vegan advised: "This looks like a problem in CRAN. The > "author of the page" is the CRAN webmaster". > > I clicked on the Cran webmaster link but my e-mail program only > generated this address: [no address given] >[snip] Can you give us a little bit more information about where you looked (i.e. what URL/mirror ?) I had no trouble retrieving a Windows binary package for vegan from http://probability.ca/cran/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/vegan_2.0-4.zip and I also tried http://cran.csiro.au/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/vegan_2.0-4.zip You could take a look at http://probability.ca/cran/mirmon_report.html to see if your mirror looks OK.
In relation to where I was trying to access the zip file it was here: http://cran.r-project.org/web/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/vegan_2.0-4.zip I used this method as my work computer does not allow me to directly install packages. Instead I have to install through the local zip file option. I had no trouble with accessing the package via http://probability.ca/cran/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/vegan_2.0-4.zip that Ben Bolker suggested. I was also able to access Vegan via the Install packages in R option, albeit only when at home.. Bob
On 12-07-28 06:49 AM, Bob Green wrote:> In relation to where I was trying to access the zip file it was here: > http://cran.r-project.org/web/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/vegan_2.0-4.zipI think you had the wrong URL ... ? I was able to find it at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/vegan_2.0-4.zip ("/web" deleted)