[R] Choice of repository and outdated vs unusable... was (Hunting for snow...)

[Brian Lunergan]

Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>> Where did you find them? At least not in their current versions on 
>>> the official repository on CRAN master for R-2.3.x, I hope.
>>
>> FracSim_0.2.zip
>> http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.3/
>>
>> RDCOMClient_0.91-0.zip
>> http://www.omegahat.org/R/bin/windows/contrib/R-2.3.0/
>>
>> segmented_0.1-4.zip
>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.1/
>>
>> VGAM_0.6-9.zip
>> http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~yee/bin/windows/contrib/2.3/
> 
> None of them is on CRAN master:
> 
> - RDCOMClient is on Omegahat
> - segmented is CRAN but outdated for R-2.1.x
> - VGAM is in a private repository
> - FracSim: I cannot access
> http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.3/
> right now, but I guess it does not sync properly. At least, the package 
> should not be there.
> 
> Uwe Ligges

Uwe:

So VGAM and RDCOMClient are on private repository sites. Is that so 
important? If a package is not on the CRAN master site are you supposed to 
avoid using it?

The FracSim home site indicated that 0.2 was the current version and a 
google search yielded the site I indicated, among others, as a repository 
of an apparent windows edition. That it's not on the master is more an 
issue between the maintainers of the master and the maintainers of the 
package, not the average end user IMHO. I found a source for what is 
apparently the current edition. What's wrong with that?

With regard to segmented, outdated does not mean unusable unless later 
editions of R or packages that call it as a dependency use features 
particular to later editions. If there is a newer windows edition of 
segmented then please point out a source for it.

Regards...
-- 
Brian Lunergan
Nepean, Ontario
Canada


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