[R] Package download problem {was "Help_Unable to run glmer"}

[David Winsemius]

On Mar 16, 2009, at 4:26 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:

>>>>>> "DW" == David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
>>>>>>    on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:32:09 -0400 writes:
>
>    DW> It's a 404 message. Try a repository that does have
>    DW> it. The CMU repository has a copy but the one you picked
>    DW> does not seem to have one at the moment. Maybe there was
>    DW> a run on the British bit and the bit banks are a wee
>    DW> short?
>
>    DW> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.8/
>
>    DW> -- David Winsemius
>
>    DW> On Mar 15, 2009, at 6:45 AM, Emma Stone wrote:
>
>>> http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.8/Matrix_0.999375-21.zip'
>
>>> cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
>
> "Further" (well, maybe the reason for the whole thread):
> Matrix has recently been upgraded, so the above URL indeed
> should no longer exist, but rather the one where you replace
> "-21" by
> "-22"

Which was not on that repository, either, at the time the uestion was  
posed. I did look. I assumed that Emma Would be able to find the -22  
version on the CMU server. It was the only Matrix package that was  
there.


>
>
> Regards,
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>

David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT