[Rd] {splines} package gone missing?

[peter dalgaard]

No, it really is base R, not Recommended:

Peters-MacBook-Air:BUILD pd$ ls ../R/src/library/Recommended/
KernSmooth.tgz			foreign.tgz
KernSmooth_2.23-20.tar.gz	foreign_0.8-81.tar.gz
MASS.tgz			lattice.tgz
MASS_7.3-54.tar.gz		lattice_0.20-44.tar.gz
Makefile.in			mgcv.tgz
Makefile.win			mgcv_1.8-35.tar.gz
Matrix.tgz			nlme.tgz
Matrix_1.3-3.tar.gz		nlme_3.1-152.tar.gz
boot.tgz			nnet.tgz
boot_1.3-28.tar.gz		nnet_7.3-16.tar.gz
class.tgz			rpart.tgz
class_7.3-19.tar.gz		rpart_4.1-15.tar.gz
cluster.tgz			spatial.tgz
cluster_2.1.2.tar.gz		spatial_7.3-14.tar.gz
codetools.tgz			survival.tgz
codetools_0.2-18.tar.gz		survival_3.2-11.tar.gz
Peters-MacBook-Air:BUILD pd$ ls ../R/src/library/
Makefile.in	compiler	grid		splines		tools
Makefile.win	datasets	methods		stats		translations
Recommended	grDevices	parallel	stats4		utils
base		graphics	profile		tcltk
> row.names(installed.packages(priority = "base")) 
 [1] "base"      "compiler"  "datasets"  "graphics"  "grDevices" "grid"     
 [7] "methods"   "parallel"  "splines"   "stats"     "stats4"    "tcltk"    
[13] "tools"     "utils"    

'profile' is not an actual package, though.

- Peter


> On 20 May 2021, at 13:12 , Ben Bolker <bbolker using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> splines is 'recommended' ( not sure about capitalization), not "base'
> 
> On Thu, May 20, 2021, 7:02 AM Randall Pruim <rpruim using calvin.edu> wrote:
> Thanks.  I actually sort of checked for this:
> 
> 
> row.names(installed.packages(priority = "base"))
>  [1] "base"      "compiler"  "datasets"  "graphics"  "grDevices" "grid"      "methods"   "parallel"  "stats"     "stats4"    "tcltk"
> [12] "tools"     "utils"
> 
> But, of course, if the package is missing on my system (a newly installed 4.1 on an RStudio server), then it won’t be listed here.
> 
> I’ll have to figure out what went wrong with the install.  I’ll probably start by having our sysadmin simply reinstall R 4.1 and hope that that takes care of the problem.
> 
> Looks like profile is missing as well.
> 
> —rjp
> 
> On May 20, 2021, at 3:14 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd using gmail.com<mailto:pdalgd using gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> It is part of base R, so comes with the R sources:
> 
> Peters-MacBook-Air:R pd$ ls src/library/
> Makefile.in   compiler/     grid/         splines/      tools/
> Makefile.win<http://Makefile.win>  datasets/     methods/      stats/        translations/
> Recommended/  grDevices/    parallel/     stats4/       utils/
> base/         graphics/     profile/      tcltk/
> 
> - pd
> 
> On 20 May 2021, at 06:02 , Randall Pruim <rpruim using calvin.edu<mailto:rpruim using calvin.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cran.r-2Dproject.org_web_packages_splines_index.html&d=DwIFaQ&c=4rZ6NPIETe-LE5i2KBR4rw&r=S6U-baLhvGcJ7iUQX_KZ6K2om1TTOeUI_-mjRpTrm00&m=GW4Zim0TvggrmjKt0HtW7il0NwJJaworM4-LL3H2FyI&s=69EYlZJd6di726T20ILKnX7f4GWM-VaUplRjNXfGolQ&e=  claims the the {splines} package has been archived.  If I follow the link there to the archives, the newest version shown is from 1999.  It seems like something has gone wrong with this package.
> 
> I checked on another mirror and {splines} is missing there as well.
> 
> —rjp
> 
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