[R] R 2.13.1 can't find package binaries on R-Forge

[Michael Friendly]

Thanks to all who replied to this. I do have the Windows tool set, and 
none of these packages required
fancy stuff, or contained compiled code, so install.packages(..., 
type="source") was an effective one-time solution.

Still, David has, I think, found the source of the problem I encountered:

> Is this just an R-Forge problem?
>
> I'm not informed about the workings of r-forge, but did you notice 
> that there were no packages in that bin/windows directory whose 
> alphabetical collation would be after lowercase "i". That seems to 
> suggest some sort of system error encountered before the next package 
> after "ipreds" was completed.
>
> On the project page the binaries for windows are listed as "offline".
>
> https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=431


On 7/31/2011 12:20 PM, Ista Zahn wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Joshua Wiley<jwiley.psych at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 9:00 AM, David Winsemius<dwinsemius at comcast.net>  wrote:
>>> On Jul 31, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Ista Zahn wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Michael,
>>>> The easiest thing to do is just install the source package with
>>>>
>>>> install.packages("p3d", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org", type =
>>>> "source")
>>>>
>>>> You'll need install some prerequisite software first (if you've not
>>>> already done so). See
>>>> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#The-Windows-toolset
>>> Is that always true? I thought that one could install pure-R packages from
>>> source without the toolset. Just asking, I'm not windozing, this year
>>> anyway.
>> No, it is not.  For pure R, you can get by without the Windows toolset
>> (though I am not sure about things like byte-compiling).  That said,
>> "getting the toolset" basically just involves downloading and double
>> clicking a nicely bundled program Duncan Murdoch supplies so it takes
>> virtually nil effort.
> Right, and just installing the Windows tools is probably quicker than
> checking to see if any of c("p3d", "patchDVI", "spacemakeR", "spida")
> contain compiled code.
>
> Best
> Ista
>
>> Josh
>>
>>> --
>>> David.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Ista
>>>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Michael Friendly<friendly at yorku.ca>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> [Env: Win XP]
>>>>> I've just upgraded from R 2.12.2 to R 2.13.1.  As part of my upgrade
>>>>> process, I typically install some in-development
>>>>> packages from R-Forge that are not on cran.  But for the first time, it
>>>>> doesn't work.
>>>>>
>>>>> e.g.,
>>>>>   >  install.packages("p3d", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
>>>>> trying URL
>>>>> 'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/p3d_0.02-2.zip'
>>>>> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>>>>>   cannot open URL
>>>>> 'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/p3d_0.02-2.zip'
>>>>> In addition: Warning message:
>>>>> In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>>>>>   cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
>>>>> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available,
>>>>>   :
>>>>>   download of package 'p3d' failed
>>>>>
>>>>> The list of packages I install this way is:
>>>>>
>>>>> special<- c("p3d", "patchDVI", "spacemakeR", "spida")
>>>>> install.packages(special,repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this just an R-Forge problem?  The source packages are there, but not
>>>>> the windows binaries.  The log files
>>>>> are uninformative:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    p3d log file (build_win64)
>>>>>
>>>>> Sun Jul 31 00:28:31 2011: Building binary for package p3d (SVN revision
>>>>> 19)
>>>>> using R version 2.13.1 Patched (2011-07-22 r56481) ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Package up to date. Not building ...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Michael Friendly     Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca
>>>>> Professor, Psychology Dept.
>>>>> York University      Voice: 416 736-5115 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814
>>>>> 4700 Keele Street    Web:   http://www.datavis.ca
>>>>> Toronto, ONT  M3J 1P3 CANADA
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Ista Zahn
>>>> Graduate student
>>>> University of Rochester
>>>> Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
>>>> http://yourpsyche.org
>>>>
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>>> David Winsemius, MD
>>> West Hartford, CT
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Joshua Wiley
>> Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
>> Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group
>> University of California, Los Angeles
>> https://joshuawiley.com/
>>
>
>


-- 
Michael Friendly     Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca
Professor, Psychology Dept.
York University      Voice: 416 736-5115 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814
4700 Keele Street    Web:   http://www.datavis.ca
Toronto, ONT  M3J 1P3 CANADA