[R] package installation fails only for "sp"

[Prof Brian Ripley]

One thing you did miss was the request in the posting guide to update to 
the latest version of R before posting.

Note that it is the download that fails, not the installation.  There is a 
binary versioon of 'sp' for R 2.3.x on the CRAN master, so it looks like a 
problem with the CRAN mirror you are using -- but of course I don't have 
an outdated version of R installed to cross-check.

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Don McKenzie wrote:

> I have escaped Splus for Windows (mostly) and have started using
> R (v 2.3.1 on i686 redhat).  Installing packages has been routine except
> for "sp" (classes and methods for spatial data).  I get the following error
> message
>
> > install.packages("sp")
> Warning in download.packages(unique(pkgs),destdir=tmpd,available=available,:
>            no package 'sp'  at the repositories
>
> Clearly I am missing something (probably obvious), but can someone
> enlighten me
> as to why the behavior of this package installation is different from
> others?  sp is
> listed under "Contributed packages" at the R-project URL.  Thank you
> for your time.
>
>

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