similar to: Installing views in R2.15.3

A little while ago here we had a short discussion about Task Views - I think ignited by someone saying 'how many times do I have to say "have you read the Optimisation Task View?"?' and I poured some fuel on that fire by saying "Task Views" was a stupid name. Anyway, I did say that Task Views were rather brilliant, but were let down by their hidden position on the R

Cran task views seems to be a "once-per-session" process -- the first attempt to access views in a (RGui for Windows) session works, but subsequent attempts fail. There is a noticeably long pause before the failing call returns. Example session with two calls to "available.views" follows, but similar effects have been observed with two calls to "install.views" and

There appears to be an issue with the decreasing=TRUE option on the order() function that indicates either a bug or perhaps a design flaw (potentially flawed because I would suggest the majority of users would expect different behaviour). # demonstration of problem: x <- c(2,1,3,4,5) order(x) order(x, decreasing=TRUE) order(x) correctly reports the order as: 2 1 3 4 5 I expected the result

Solved the original problem I wrote in about with a combination of r-cran downloads through Synaptic and downloads from one of the mirror sites. Things worked out well. Using the ctv package I pulled in the contents of the Finance view. Not clear which one, but one of the packages called up RDCOMClient as an apparent dependency. Not showing up as an r-cran file or on any of the mirrors

Since I had too much junk cluttering my computer, I recently re-set it back to factory settings, in the process eliminating R. I now have to reload R and packages, and would like to do that via the install.views command. I have successfully downloaded the package "ctv" but R does not recognize install.views. What am I doing wrong? I am using R 2.4.0. Pierre D'Ange. "To

Hello, I am just beginning to use R, after several years of using S-Plus (with mixed success). I saw a recommendation on another mailing list for the Environmetrics and Spatial Task Views, as a good way for a new user to get started actually using R. The Task Views page at CRAN says: "To automatically install these views, the ctv package needs to be installed, e.g., via

CRAN task views are useful, but they seem difficult to write and maintain because the XML format is rather limited (no sectioning) and the <packagelist> must be maintained manually. They are also difficult to read because the generated html and .css used are extremely basic, giving an overly dense page. Are there any markdown-like tools for writing a CTV? Is it possible to apply a

Dear R-users, After upgrading to the recent version of R, I'm having a problem updating task views: > sessionInfo() R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] datasets utils stats graphics grDevices methods base other attached packages: [1]

Dear developeRs, in the last month I mentioned in several discussions on R-help that Kurt and I were working on tools for "CRAN Task Views" which should help to structure the fast-growing list of packages on CRAN. Now the first version of a package called ctv (for CRAN Task Views) is available from CRAN and also two frist drafts for such views can be seen at

Dear Rxperts, Using R 2.8.1 and trying install.views("Cluster") getting error Error: could not find function "install.views" Please help:-( -- Oscar Oscar A. Linares Molecular Medicine Unit Bolles Harbor Monroe, Michigan [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

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The CRAN Taskviews (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Views/) is currently unavailable and returns 404 Object not found! This is possibly due to them now being linked from the side frame and the URL now being http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ Unfortunately the webmaster link on the 404 page does not have any email address associated with it, hence the mail to the list. Neil -- View

Hi all, Sorry if this doesn't end up in the thread. Tobias Verbeke forwarded that e-mail to me, because he thought I would be interested in maintaining the Programming Tools CTV. I wasn't subscribed to R-devel yet, but I would indeed like to volunteer to maintain the Programming Tools CTV. It will be my first time creating a CTV, so some guidance on getting it setup will be appreciated.

Dear Willem, Personally, I use the R-forge project for the distribution CTV : https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/ctv/ It?s an alternative option to github. Regards, Christophe --------------------------------------- Christophe Dutang LMM, UdM, Le Mans, France web: http://dutangc.free.fr Le 23 janv. 2015 ? 12:49, Luca Braglia <lbraglia at gmail.com> a ?crit : > Hi Willem >

Hi, I am running Debian Sid. I am having trouble with the R packages. Executing 'help()' or 'demo()' launches 'most' with no text. 'help.start()' works properly. When I try to install a package, I get the following problem: ********************************************************************* > install.packages("ctv") Installing package(s) into

I have this problem with loading RPyGeo package when using update.views. How can I fix this. I have tried to use other CRAN mirrors with the same result. Below is a copy of my session. ---------------------session----------------------- R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16) Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) R is free

Dear all, Wouldn't it be helpful if the install.views install.packages update.packages had a "downloadonly=TRUE" flag which would allow us to download the packages and install them later (or put them in a USB stick and take them for installation on anothe PC). I am behind a firewall (Bank) and I have serious plroblem updating R or installing views (Finance, Econometrics etc.

I haven't seen this cryptic warning before: > update.views('Robust') Warning message: In update.views("Robust") : The following packages are not available: covRobust, distr, FRB, MASS, mblm, multinomRob, mvoutlier, quantreg, RandVar, rgam, RobAStBase, robfilter, RobLox, RobRex, robust, RobustAFT, robustbase, ROptEst, ROptRegTS, rrcov, sandwich, wle >

Folks, I am using R 2.1.1 on Apple OS X 10.3. Earlier, I used to say $ sudo R > update.packages() and all the packages used to get installed. For several weeks, I noticed that nothing has been coming through. I used the R-for-Mac graphics console and I find that there are many packages where new versions have come out which I don't have. Is something wrong with update.packages()? I

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Achim Zeileis <Achim.Zeileis at uibk.ac.at> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Max Kuhn wrote: > >> I've had a lot of requests for additions to the reproducible research >> task view that fall into a grey area (to me at least). >> >> For example, roxygen2 is a tool that broadly enable reproducibility >> but I see it more as