[R] install.package("TinnR") - there is no package called 'TinnR' (RESOLVED)

[Martin Tomko]

Yes, will do. I just was not in need to upgrade as everything worked... 
An R is not my primary development environment - i.e., I need it a 
couple of times a year.
But you are right, it is good to be on an updated version.
Cheers
Martin

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 3/24/2009 8:55 AM, Martin Tomko wrote:
>> Hi Duncan,
>> it is Win Xp with the 2.6.0 R-project version. Sorry, I should have 
>> included this before.
>> Installing the TinnR package manually from a local zip file 
>> downloaded from CRAN helped. I am still not sure why the package was 
>> not picked in the repositories. Can anyone please see if the package 
>> is visible to other under install packages in any repository?
>
> Your version of R is too old.  TinnR was last updated in February this 
> year and claims to support 2.6.0, but CRAN no longer builds binaries 
> for 2.6.x.  (Version 2.6.0 became obsolete in November 2007 when 2.6.1 
> was released, and binaries for the 2.6.x series stopped being built 
> sometime last year.)
>
> If you are set up for installing from source, you could try 
> downloading the source package
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/TinnR_1.0.3.tar.gz
>
> and running
>
> Rcmd INSTALL TinnR_1.0.3.tar.gz
>
> but it is probably easier to update your R to the current release.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>> Thanks
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>> On 3/24/2009 7:05 AM, Martin Tomko wrote:
>>>> I have troubles make TinnR 2.2.0.2 work, it seems that the 
>>>> dependency on the package TinnR that cannot be found (I tried also 
>>>> manual downloads, but I cannot find the package anywhere on any 
>>>> CRAN mirror).
>>>
>>> What R version are you using, on what platform?  I have no trouble 
>>> with an automatic install of the TinnR package into 2.8.1 on Windows.
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I even set a default cran mirror in the Rprofile.site file, so that 
>>>> the later command can find it:
>>>> # check necesary packages
>>>> necessary = c('TinnR', 'svSocket')
>>>> installed = necessary %in% installed.packages()[, 'Package']
>>>> if (length(necessary[!installed]) >=1)
>>>> install.packages(necessary[!installed], dep=T).
>>>>
>>>> No luck. Even manually issuing the comand in Rterm fails, package 
>>>> ‘TinnR’ is not available.
>>>> Any idea how I could make my TinnR work? I googled extensively, but 
>>>> without luck...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Martin
>>>>
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