[R] help downloading lme4 from CRAN

[Uwe Ligges]

Bill Shipley wrote:

> Hello.  I am having trouble downloading the lme4 package from the CRAN
> site.  The error is:
>  
> 
>>local({a <- CRAN.packages()
> 
> + install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1],
> available=a, dependencies=TRUE)})
> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/PACKAGES'
> Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 26129 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 25Kb
>  
> also installing the dependencies 'Matrix', 'latticeExtra', 'mlmRev'
>  
> trying URL
> `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/Matrix_0.95-5.zip'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") : 
>         cannot open URL
> `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/Matrix_0.95-5.zip'
> In addition: Warning message: 
> cannot open: HTTP status was `404 Not Found' 
>  
> Can someone please explain what I am doing wrong?  

You wrong: please upgrade to R-2.2.1!
The 2.0.x repository is no longer supported (nor the 2.1.x one!)

I wrong: Hmmm, looks like I forgot to finally sync the 2.0 directory 
after moving to newer versions.
The last Matrix version is available from
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/last/Matrix_0.95-5.zip
(you can install it manually, for example).

Uwe Ligges


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> Bill Shipley
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