[R] Where to find old R packages?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You mean like the 'Archive' on CRAN?  It is linked from the main packages 
page, at the bottom.

However, I've not heard of that package on CRAN, and it is not in the 
Windows binary list from 2004 for R 1.7.x.

I don't think it ever was on CRAN.  Try www.agric.wa.gov.au, which is 
where Google seems to point you.

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, francogrex wrote:

>
> What happens to old R packages? Is there a place where they are stored like
> an archive? I'm looking for a package called ScanoR that doesn't exist
> anymore on CRAN, the author doesn't exist anymore... I had made copies of
> all packages (fearing that some might be "taken off the air" but
> unfortuantely the ScanoR package was removed before I started making copies
> in 2007). Any help appreciated. Thanks.


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