R help - Apr 2015 - cannot find package colbycol in R 3.2.0

Hi All, after installing the new version of R (3.2.0), I cannot find
package "colbycol", is there anyway to use it with the new version?

I want to use function cbc.read.table, which is in package "colbycol".
If
this package is no longer available in the new version, is there anyway
around it?

Thanks!

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> On Apr 21, 2015, at 12:01 PM, Ye Lin <yelin at lbl.gov> wrote:
> 
> Hi All, after installing the new version of R (3.2.0), I cannot find
> package "colbycol", is there anyway to use it with the new
version?
> 
> I want to use function cbc.read.table, which is in package
"colbycol". If
> this package is no longer available in the new version, is there anyway
> around it?
> 
> Thanks!

It would appear that the package was archived last year due to a failure to
abide by CRAN policies with respect to Java sources:

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

There are older versions of the package source tarballs in the linked archive
that may or may not work. It looks like the package has not been updated in over
a year, so there may be associated issues and you may be better off contacting
the package maintainer (http://colbycol.r-forge.r-project.org) to see where they
stand on package updates.

Presumably the CRAN maintainers have already attempted that without success or
without a commitment to keep the package compliant with CRAN policies, hence the
archiving.

You might want to look at the HPC CRAN task view to see if there are any
alternatives that would work for you:

  http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/HighPerformanceComputing.html

Regards,

Marc Schwartz

Thanks! The package still cannot be installed and I've found an alternative
way which is using package "limma"

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com>
wrote:
>
> > On Apr 21, 2015, at 12:01 PM, Ye Lin <yelin at lbl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All, after installing the new version of R (3.2.0), I cannot find
> > package "colbycol", is there anyway to use it with the new
version?
> >
> > I want to use function cbc.read.table, which is in package
"colbycol". If
> > this package is no longer available in the new version, is there
anyway
> > around it?
> >
> > Thanks!
>
>
> It would appear that the package was archived last year due to a failure
> to abide by CRAN policies with respect to Java sources:
>
>   http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/colbycol/index.html
>
> There are older versions of the package source tarballs in the linked
> archive that may or may not work. It looks like the package has not been
> updated in over a year, so there may be associated issues and you may be
> better off contacting the package maintainer (
> http://colbycol.r-forge.r-project.org) to see where they stand on package
> updates.
>
> Presumably the CRAN maintainers have already attempted that without
> success or without a commitment to keep the package compliant with CRAN
> policies, hence the archiving.
>
> You might want to look at the HPC CRAN task view to see if there are any
> alternatives that would work for you:
>
>   http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/HighPerformanceComputing.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
>
>

-- 
Ye Lin
Sr. Research Associate
Energy Efficiency Standards Group
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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