[R] cannot find package in Packages>>Install Packages

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Sun Jan 8 13:58:25 CET 2012 

On 12-01-08 5:21 AM, Bill wrote:
> Hi. I am trying to install a package called DMwR
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DMwR/index.html
> located here:
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/DMwR_0.2.1.zip
> on windows 7.
> I am using R 2.10.1.
> I also tried typing something like this but it did not work well.
> install.packages(c("
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/DMwR_0.2.1.zip
> "),repos="http://cran.r-project.org",dependencies=TRUE)
>
> Can someone tell me
> 1. Why it is not available on the various mirrors?

Because CRAN doesn't build binary packages for R 2.10.1 any more.

> 2. How can I install it locally or using the install.packages() command but
> get all the dependencies as well.

The easiest way is to upgrade to a current R, and just run

install.packages("DMwR")

If you are stuck in 2010 (a malfunctioning time machine?) then you'll 
need to install it from source.  See the R Installation and 
Administration manual for the details.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> Thank you.
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:05 PM, David Winsemius<dwinsemius at comcast.net>wrote:
>
>> Three suggestions:
>>
>> -- drop the idea of using a dataframe. It's only appropriate when the data
>> is rectangular.
>> -- look at strsplit for separating at "@" characters.
>> -- post the output of dput() on your sample, since email is probably not
>> capable of rendering this data without creating distortions.
>>
>> --
>> David
>>
>> On Nov 1, 2009, at 7:43 AM, onyourmark wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi. I have a huge list called twitter:
>>>
>>>   dim(twitter)
>>>>
>>> NULL
>>>
>>>> str(twitter)
>>>>
>>>
>> This looks to have been converted into an R object through soe process on
>> some unspecified input. You should describe that process, and hte only
>> unambiguous method of doing so is by including the code.
>>
>>
>>   List of 1
>>> $ :Classes 'PlainTextDocument', 'TextDocument', 'character'  atomic
>>> [1:35575] 11999;10:47:14;20;10;2009;**ObamaLouverture;Trails Mixed
>>> Lessons For
>>> Governance From Campaigner-in-chief: President obama jumps  campaign 09
>>> tuesday.. http://bit.ly/2eHMaN;Florida;**USA;FL;;;27.6648274;-81.**
>>> 5157535<http://bit.ly/2eHMaN;Florida;USA;FL;;;27.6648274;-81.5157535>
>>> 12210;10:47:37;20;10;2009;**David_Stringer;William Hague heading
>>>   Washington
>>> meets  Gen. Jim Jones, Sen. John McCain  others. Will Obama team raise
>>> worries  EU ties?;London, England;United Kingdom;Greater
>>> London;Westminster;;51.**5001524;-0.1262362
>>> 12355;10:47:53;20;10;2009;**Singsabit;RT @Drudge_Report PAPER: Excuses
>>> wearing
>>> thin  Obama, media pals... http://tinyurl.com/yfw6cd9;So.
>>> California;USA;CA;;;36.778261;**-119.4179324
>>> 12407;10:47:59;20;10;2009;**obamavideonews;Obama News Obama   Afghanistan
>>> troop decision timing (AFP) : AFP - Pres.. http://bit.ly/3KPUr8 #obama
>>> #video;USA;USA;;;;37.09024;-**95.712891 ...
>>>   .. ..- attr(*, "Author")= chr(0)
>>>   .. ..- attr(*, "DateTimeStamp")= POSIXlt[1:9], format: "2009-10-31
>>> 04:46:56"
>>>   .. ..- attr(*, "Description")= chr(0)
>>>   .. ..- attr(*, "Heading")= chr(0)
>>>   .. ..- attr(*, "ID")= chr "1"
>>>   .. ..- attr(*, "Language")= chr "en"
>>>   .. ..- attr(*, "LocalMetaData")= list()
>>>   .. ..- attr(*, "Origin")= chr(0)
>>> - attr(*, "CMetaData")=List of 3
>>>   ..$ NodeID  : num 0
>>>   ..$ MetaData:List of 2
>>>   .. ..$ create_date: POSIXlt[1:9], format: "2009-10-31 04:46:56"
>>>   .. ..$ creator    : Named chr ""
>>>   .. .. ..- attr(*, "names")= chr "LOGNAME"
>>>   ..$ Children: NULL
>>>   ..- attr(*, "class")= chr "MetaDataNode"
>>> - attr(*, "DMetaData")='data.frame':   1 obs. of  1 variable:
>>>   ..$ MetaID: num 0
>>> - attr(*, "class")= chr [1:3] "VCorpus" "Corpus" "list"
>>>
>>> It contains tweets but in many languages. The "columns" are separated by
>>> semi-colons. I am using the tm package and it is a "corpus".
>>>
>>> It looks like this:
>>>
>>
>> It is difficult to see any connection with what you have above.
>>
>>
>>> 547282;06:37:17;21;10;2009;**dani_jade18;@Laura_Whyte1   day
>>> :p;Huddersfield/Lincoln;United
>>> Kingdom;Kirklees;Kirklees;;53.**6468475;-1.7727296
>>> 547283;06:37:17;21;10;2009;**fabiomafra;alguém traz mais lenha pro
>>> computador
>>> da facool? BOM DIA.;Belo Horizonte - MG -
>>> BR;Brazil;MG;;;-19.8157306;-**43.9542226
>>> 547284;06:37:17;21;10;2009;**romanotr;Вау, "Репортеры без границ"
>>> опубликовали
>>> список стран со свободой слова, из 173 Грузия на 81 месте опережая
>>> Украину.
>>> Успехи,успехи...;Portugal Aveiro;Portugal;Aveiro;;;40.**
>>> 6411848;-8.6536169
>>> 547285;06:37:18;21;10;2009;Y_**T_;Playing: Beth Orton&lt\;Someone's
>>> Daughter&gt\;;Kanazawa, Japan;Japan;Ishikawa
>>> Prefecture;;;36.5613254;136.**6562051
>>> Error: invalid input
>>> '547286;06:37:18;21;10;2009;**Atogey;æ”¯æŒ ä½ ï¼Œå›½å®¶éœ€è¦
>>> ä»–ä»¬ï¼Œä½†æ˜¯å›½å®¶çš„æœªæ ¥ä¸ èƒ½é  ä»–ä»¬â€¦RT
>>> @zuola ￿我觉得 @wenyunc
>>>
>>> I want to convert it to "fields" or columns and so I thought I should
>>> convert it to a dataframe. I tried
>>>
>>>   twitterDF<-as.data.frame(**twitter)
>>>>
>>> Error in sort.list(y) :
>>>   invalid input
>>> '547286;06:37:18;21;10;2009;**Atogey;æ”¯æŒ ä½ ï¼Œå›½å®¶éœ€è¦
>>> ä»–ä»¬ï¼Œä½†æ˜¯å›½å®¶çš„æœªæ ¥ä¸ èƒ½é  ä»–ä»¬â€¦RT
>>> @zuola ￿我觉得 @wenyunchao
>>> ä¸€ç‚¹éƒ½ä¸ ä¹ è§‚ã€‚çœŸæ £çš„ä¹ è§‚åº”è¯¥æ˜¯ï¼šä½ å…³æˆ‘å ˆæ€Žä¹ˆæ ·ï¼Œå
>>>   æ £æ”¿æ²»æ–—äº‰ä¸ ä¼šä¸¢æŽ‰æ€§å‘½ï¼Œè€ å  å‡ºæ ¥å Žæ›´æ˜¯ä¸€æ
>>> ¡å¥½æ±‰ã€‚åŒ—é£Žè¿˜æ˜¯èˆ ä¸ å¾—*éœ¸åœ°ä½ ã€ è‚‰ã€ ä¹¦ã€
>>> å¥³äººå’Œç½‘ç»œçš„ï¼Œä¸ è¿‡ç‰¢é‡Œä¸ ä¼šæ  ä¾›è¿™äº›ã€‚å
>>> ¦â€¦;山西，浙江;China;**Zhejiang;;;28.695035;119.**751054'
>>> in 'utf8towcs'
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Can anyone suggest what I can do?
>>>
>>> P.S. Actually, I would love to remove all the non-English tweets but I
>>> have
>>> no clue about how to do that.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>
>> David Winsemius, MD
>> Heritage Laboratories
>> West Hartford, CT
>>
>>
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