[R] tree version 1.0-16

[Uwe Ligges]

Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>>"ZKala" == Kalaylioglu, Zeynep (IMS) <KalayliogluZ at imsweb.com>
>>>>>>    on Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:52:11 -0400 writes:
> 
> 
>     ZKala> Hi There is something weird going on with the "tree"
>     ZKala> package version 1.0-16.  So I want to download an
>     ZKala> updated tree package. I found that R website has
>     ZKala> version 1.0-18. I want to try this one and see how
>     ZKala> the tree algorithm is performing.  What is the best
>     ZKala> way to download tree package version 1.0-18 which can
>     ZKala> be found in index of src/contrib at
>     ZKala> www.r-project.org?  So far I tried two different ways
>     ZKala> none of which has worked for me: 1) I tried to
>     ZKala> download it by running the command
>     ZKala> install.packages("tree","C:\Program
>     ZKala> Files\R\rw1081\library","http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib",destdir=
>     ZKala> "C:\Program
>     ZKala> <http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib",destdir="C:/Program>
>     ZKala> Files\R\rw1081\library",installWithVers=TRUE) But it
>     ZKala> tries to connect to
>     ZKala> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/PACKAGES
>     ZKala> <http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/PACKAGES>
>     ZKala> instead of the URL I enter above.
> 
> yes, I see  that your R version is 'R (for windows) 1.8.1'
> and that's probably why it tries to get package for that
> version.
> 
> If you want to upgrade packages, I strongly recommend to first
> upgrade R to the current version 2.0.0 (or maybe "2.0.0 patched")
> -- and then follow the advice from James MacDonald.

Yes!

Let me add, that if you are going to stay with R-1.8.1 for some 
unbelievable reason, you can compile from sources (the one that ends 
with .tar.gz) yourself (follow .../src/gnuwin32/readme.packages). That 
might be much harder than upgrading, though - and we cannot promise that 
a recent package version works under outdated versions of R.

Uwe Ligges


> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>  
>     ZKala> 2) Also I tried to download it by copying the zip
>     ZKala> file first tree_1.0-18.tar.gz
>     ZKala> <http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/tree_1.0-18.tar.gz>
>     ZKala> in my directory and then using the "Packages->Install
>     ZKala> package from local -zip files" in the R menu.
>  
>     ZKala> How can I download this version of tree? Thanks.
>  
>     ZKala> Zeynep
> 
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