[R] no package 'Matrix' at the repositories

[Spencer Graves]

	  Thank you all for your replies and for all your hard work to make R 
what it is.  The wise course for me is probably to use R 2.1.1 when I 
need the Matrix package until this issue gets fixed.

	  Best Wishes,
	  spencer graves

Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 11/11/2005 9:13 AM, 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...
> 
> 
> Yes, he is.  Brian Ripley put together a copy that will build and 
> install on Windows; I think it is just a matter of a short wait before 
> those patches are incorporated in the main copy and it is sent to CRAN.
> 
> Matrix is a big package, and it tests lots of code in R.  I spent a day 
> earlier this week tracking down a bug in R-devel that it revealed.  It 
> was a tricky one, because it only generated a warning; when warnings 
> were converted to errors, the problem went away.  Luke Tierney pointed 
> out a nice trick that made it easier to find such a thing, and I've 
> added it to my debugging web page here:
> 
> <http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/debuggingR/#tryCatch>
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
>>
>> 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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