[R] MDA: package "class" not found ?!?

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, [iso-8859-1] Till Baumgaertel wrote:

> hi all,
>
> when i try the mda-example i got the following error:
> "There is no package called `class'"
> when i invoke the following line:
> irisfit <- mda(Species ~ ., data = iris)
>
> on CRAN i cannot find such a package.
> can you help me?

It's part of the VR bundle.  Perhaps the

Suggests: class

line in the DESCRIPTION needs to be more explicit?


> i'm using the windows-version 1.2.1.

That's a couple of versions old.  The current VR bundle prefers 1.2.3.
1.3.0 is days away.

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