[R] no package 'Matrix' at the repositories

[Uwe Ligges]

Spencer Graves wrote:

> 	  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.


No, you can use R-2.2.0, but simply use the last working version of 
Matrix (which is in the Windows repository again, as mentioned 
yesterday) rather than the most recent one.
Exactly the same applies for R-2.1.1, hence no reason to switch back!

Uwe Ligges


> 	  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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