[R] [Fwd: Re: no package 'Matrix' at the repositories]

[Uwe Ligges]

[Resend the stuff below since initial one has been blocked from R-help.]

I have moved the "old" Matrix_0.98-7.zip to the main repository for the 
meantime.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [R] no package 'Matrix' at the repositories
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:45:19 +0100
From: Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Organization: Fachbereich Statistik, Universitaet Dortmund
To: Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw at merck.com>
CC: 'Sean Davis' <sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov>,  Spencer Graves 
<spencer.graves at pdf.com>, r-help <R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>, Douglas 
Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu>
References: <39B6DDB9048D0F4DAD42CB26AAFF0AFAFED597 at usctmx1106.merck.com>

Liaw, Andy wrote:

> If you are installing from Windows, the current version of Matrix apparently
> doesn't build automatically on Windows.  See:
> 
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.3/check/Matrix-check.log
> 
> (That's for R-devel.  There're similar problems on R-2.2.0.)
> 
> I'm sure Doug is aware of this...


Indeed, Doug himself as well as others are aware of it and a solution is
not far away, as far as I can tell ...

The last working version of Matrix for R-2.2.x is (according to the
ReadMe at the repository) available at:

CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.2/last/

Uwe Ligges





> Andy
> 
> 
>>From: Sean Davis
>>
>>On 11/11/05 8:38 AM, "Spencer Graves" <spencer.graves at pdf.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Yesterday, I installed R2.2.0 for Windows [Version 2.2.0 
>>
>>(2005-10-06
>>
>>>r35749)].  Unfortunately, 'install.packages("Matrix")' produced the
>>>following message:
>>>
>>>Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available =
>>>available,  :
>>>        no package 'Matrix' at the repositories
>>>
>>> I installed lme4, maps, mapproj, CircStats, scatterplot3d, 
>>
>>gregmisc,
>>
>>>Hmisc without problems.  To confirm, 'library(lme4)' produced the
>>>following error:
>>>
>>>Error: package 'Matrix' required by 'lme4' could not be found
>>>
>>> What do you suggest?
>>> Spencer Graves
>>>p.s.  I get the same result using several different (US) mirrors.
>>
>>I found it here:
>>
> 
> http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/src/contrib/Matrix_0.99-1.tar.gz
> 
> and here:
> 
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/Matrix_0.99-1.tar.gz
> 
> at least.  These are the only two I checked.
> 
> Sean
> 
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