[R] Updating R on an old Linux installation (was: Where is package gridBase?)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

There are older versions of gridBase suitable for 2.2.1 at CRAN, e.g.
src/contrib/Archive/gridBase_0.4-2.tar.gz.  Why not just install that?

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Jonathan Dushoff wrote:

>
> I am running R 2.2.1 on a University-supported linux installation based
> on Redhat EL3.  I am sorry that it did not occur to me to mention this
> before; I updated R very recently, with the most recent version
> available for EL3 at http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/redhat/el3/.
>
> Looking at the gridBase documentation, I find that 2.2.1 is not in fact
> the most recent version.  I have now spent hours trying to install 2.3.
> No available binary rpms seem to work.  If I try the source code,
> configure crashes with a complaint that I do not have X, which is false
> (see below).

That is not what it says, and very likely it is the X11 headers that are 
not installed.

>
> Do I need a new version of Linux?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Jonathan
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ./configure
>
> (lots of positive stuff)
>
> checking for X... no
> configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not
> available
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:27:02 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jonathan Dushoff <dushoff at eno.princeton.edu>
> To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Where is package gridBase?
>
> Trying to follow the instructions on the page
> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/12/17153.html (to make a
> figure with an inset), I typed
>
>> install.packages("gridBase", repos="http://cran.r-project.org")
>
> and was rejected.
>
> 	no package 'gridBase' at the repositories in: download.packages(pkgs,
> 	destdir = tmpd, available = available,
>
> I went to the FAQ at
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Add_002don-packages-from-CRAN,
> and was informed that gridBase was an add-on package available from
> CRAN.
>
> I also tried installing other packages using exactly the same command.
>
>> install.packages("TeachingDemos", repos="http://cran.r-project.org")
>
> These packages were apparently found:
> 	trying URL
> 	'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/TeachingDemos_1.2.tar.gz'
> 	Content type 'application/x-tar' length 66472 bytes
> 	opened URL
>
> 	(and so on)
>
> I would appreciate any insight that anyone might have.
>
> Jonathan
>
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