[R] package installation fails only for "sp"

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Sorry, I missed that 'i686 redhat' might mean Red Hat, that is a form of 
Linux.  The advice in the first para applies: the current version of 'sp' 
in the source area on CRAN is for R>=2.4.0: see

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/sp.html

If you cannot update your R, there are versions of 'sp' available in the 
Archive area on CRAN that willl work with R 2.3.1.

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> 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 version 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 outdated version of R installed to cross-check.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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