[BioC] Problem installing \'survival\' package/ Fix request + other options?

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Ranjani R [guest]
<guest at bioconductor.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have to generate Kaplan-Meier curves and do some survival analysis. From what I understand the 'Survival' package in R is the best bet (please give me other options if you think otherwise).
> I've seldom had trouble installing any packages in R - but this one is having me puzzled. I do not have any 'older' versions of the package installed:
>
> install.packages("survival")
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> trying URL 'http://cran.cs.wwu.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/survival_2.37-4.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 3040152 bytes (2.9 Mb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 2.9 Mb
>
> package ‘survival’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘survival’
>
> The downloaded binary packages are in <...edited>
>
> library(survival)
> Error in library(survival) : there is no package called ‘survival’
>
> What am I doing incorrectly?
>

Emailing the bioconductor list to ask about a CRAN package. ;-)

Dan


>
>  -- output of sessionInfo():
>
> R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.15.2
>
>
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