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I have troubles installing the "SparseM" package on my Debian stable Linux system. Debian's version of R is: platform i386-pc-linux-gnu arch i386 os linux-gnu system i386, linux-gnu status major 1 minor 5.1 year 2002 month 06 day 17 language R This is the installation output: > R CMD INSTALL -l /usr/lib/R/ SparseM_0.36.tar.gz * Installing

Subject: Non-GPL packages for R Packages that are not licensed in a way that permits re-distribution on CRAN are frequently a source of comment and concern on R-help and other lists. A good example of this problem is the Rdonlp2 package that has caused a lot of annoyance for a number of optimization users in R. They are also an issue for efforts like Dirk Eddelbuettel's cran2deb. There

Dear R People: I am attempting to install SparseM on R 2.15.0 on a Linux 11.10 system. Here is the output > install.packages("SparseM",depen=TRUE) Installing package(s) into ?/home/erin/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15? (as ?lib? is unspecified) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done trying URL

Hi, I would also be in favor of a stronger stance on licenses. In industry, where we can really get in big trouble for violating a license, we often maintain internal repositories, or need to be careful about filtering what is used from CRAN. I think that is should really be a requirement the package authors commit to stating what the restrictions are on their packages. Nicholas On 10

I have been running into difficulties with dispatching on an S4 class defined in the SparseM package, when the method calls are inside a function passed as the f= argument to optimize() in functions in the spdep package. The S4 methods are typically defined as: setMethod("det","matrix.csr", function(x, ...) det(chol(x))^2) that is within setMethod() rather than by name before

Hi, I am writing some basic smoothers in R for cleaning some spectral data. I wanted to see if I could get close to matlab for speed, so I was trying to compare SparseM with Matrix to see which could do the choleski decomposition the fastest. Here is the function using SparseM difsm <- function(y, lambda, d){ # Smoothing with a finite difference penalty # y: signal to be smoothed #

I'm trying to use stepAIC on sparse matrices, and I need some help. The documentation for slm.fit suggests: slm.fit and slm.wfit call slm.fit.csr to do Cholesky decomposition and then backsolve to obtain the least squares estimated coefficients. These functions can be called directly if the user is willing to specify the design matrix in matrix.csr form. This is often advantageous in large

Versions 0.9975-1 of the Matrix and lme4 packages will soon be available on CRAN for use with R version 2.4.0 or later. Purpose of the packages: The Matrix package provides S4 classes and methods for sparse and dense matrices. The lme4 package provides functions for fitting and assessing linear or generalized linear mixed effects models (also called multilevel models). Like the Matrix package,

Versions 0.9975-1 of the Matrix and lme4 packages will soon be available on CRAN for use with R version 2.4.0 or later. Purpose of the packages: The Matrix package provides S4 classes and methods for sparse and dense matrices. The lme4 package provides functions for fitting and assessing linear or generalized linear mixed effects models (also called multilevel models). Like the Matrix package,

[ Kevin sent this to me but agreed that it's better to have this discussed here. ] On 30 January 2010 at 12:18, Kevin Donnelly wrote: | Hi | | I'm beginning to learn R,a nd I've just discovered cran2deb - what a terrific | resource! Thanks for making it. | | I was wondering what happens if I want to use cran2deb versions instead of the | versions installed via R itself. I'm

Last year, Dirk E was asking about customizing options to for packages when using R CMD INSTALL http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e4/devel/08/06/1980.html Has there been more on that question lately? I also wonder what this means in the "Building Packages" section of the R-Extensions manual: "R CMD build can also build pre-compiled version of packages for binary distributions,

Some packages are available in cran2deb and Debian. After adding cran2deb to my sources.list it seems the cran2deb ones are favored because X.Y-ZcranN is "more recent" than X.Y-Z. In the case of r-cran-rmpi the effect of this was to cause aptitude to want to uninstall all my mpi stuff. Apparently the automatically generated package doesn't have mpi as a dependency. I just put a

What is the relation between the cran2deb repository, http://debian.cran.r-project.org/, and the debian repositories at CRAN, http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/? I've studied the pages and this list, but am unsure I've got it right. My understanding is that cran2deb had almost all packages, targets testing, and currently is only supported for i386. It appears the debian repo at

Hi, I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 amd64 with cran2deb packages (I know it's meant for Debian, it's worked fine for me for many months). Recently apt-get update has to started to complain: ... Hit http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Release Get:1 http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Packages [515kB] Fetched 1B in 3s (0B/s) W: Failed to fetch

I have recently started using R and want to use the quantreg (and sparseM) packages. I downloaded the .tar files for each, and placed the subsequent folders into the library folder in the frameworks/R.framework/ resources/library folder with all the other packages. When I try to load either package from the package manager window I get: Loading required package: SparseM Error in

Hello, I am trying to load the package SparseM. It seems that I have successfully installed SparseM (version 0.78), but I did not succeed in loading the SparseM package into R 2.7. Does anybody know a trick for loading SparseM? Thanks in advance, Heike > library(SparseM,lib.loc=my.lib.loc) Error in packageDescription(pkg)$Version : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors In addition:

Announcing cran2deb: 1700+ Debian packages from almost all of CRAN ------------------------------------------------------------------ Last Friday's presentation at UseR! 2009 was the first really public mention of 'cran2deb'. It provides Debian packages of all of CRAN. It started as Charles' project from last year's Google Summer of Code, was further extended by us over the

Dear Michael, I was looking up the status of the cran2deb effort and notice that you now have a PPA where new packages are landing and being built for Ubuntu. It looks like this is still a work in progress, but is already a fantastic resource for me and I hope it is something that you can continue to operate. I'm now installing many of these packages but some things I need are missing.

I'm having trouble loading the package SparseM in R 1.8.1, OS = Windows 2000. Installing appeared to go well; I saw no error messages, html documentation was installed, and "installed.packages()" lists SparseM among the installed packages. When I try to load the library, however, I get the following: > library(SparseM) Error in slot(mlist, "argument") : Can't get

Hi, I am curious what will happen to cran2deb: deb http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64 testing/ When Squeeze is released? I really hope this service will continue. It has been great being able to aptitude install R packages. Additionally are these packages signed and is there a key? Chris