[R] Find and install old package to R 2.11 in UNIX

[Uwe Ligges]

On 17.08.2012 02:42, David Winsemius wrote:
>
> On Aug 16, 2012, at 4:33 PM, Kevin Goulding wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm having trouble installing and using the 'foreign' package in R
>> on a
>> UNIX machine.
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>>     R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
>>     sparc-sun-solaris2.10
>>
>>     locale:
>>     [1] C
>>
>>     attached base packages:
>>     [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> Is there a way to find and install an old 'foreign' package that works
>> with
>> my machine?
>>
>> Does such a method generalize to finding other out-of-date packages
>> for my
>> machine?
>
> Yes, there is a general method. Install from archived package as source.
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive
>
>


Right, but then foreign is a recommended package and is shipped with 
released versions of R, hence should be available already.

Best,
Uwe Ligges