[R] Package "prabclus" not available?

[Christian Hennig]

> Works for me for both the London mirror as well as CRAN master.
> May I guess that you are under R < 2.10.x on that machine?

Oh yes, need to update this first. Thanks. Solved.

The error message could be more informative, though...

Christian

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> Uwe
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> On 10.10.2010 14:48, Christian Hennig wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> I just tried to install the package prabclus on a computer running
>> Ubuntu Linux 9.04 using install.packages from within R.
>> This gave me a message:
>> Warning message:
>> In install.packages("prabclus") : package ‘prabclus’ is not available
>> 
>> I tried to do this selecting two different CRAN mirrors (same result)
>> and with other packages (installing them works fine).
>> 
>> Looking up the CRAN mirror website I used (UK, London), there doesn't
>> seem to be anything wrong with prabclus. (iMac checking apparently gives
>> an error which is due to an error with package spdep on that platform in
>> tests, but that shouldn't affect using it on Linux, or should it?)
>> 
>> Any explanation?
>> 
>> Thanks and best wishes,
>> Christian
>> 
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Christian Hennig
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Gower St., London WC1E 6BT, phone +44 207 679 1698
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