[R] how do I find previous version of a package?

[Marc Schwartz]

You missed the "Old Sources" link under "Downloads:" on that page (which most CRAN packages have):

  http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/fields/

You can then download the appropriate tarball version and install the package locally.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

On Jan 12, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Michael wrote:

> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fields/index.html
> 
> As you can see, it clearly stated that "> 2.13"...
> 
> I thought in Linux, we default to download and build from the source...
> 
> using "install.packages()" ...
> 
> How do I really build it for 2.12?
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:12 AM, R. Michael Weylandt <
> michael.weylandt at gmail.com> <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I assume you mean it's not on CRAN. You'll have to build from source. The
>> easiest way to do so is with the "type" argument to install.packages()
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> On Jan 12, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Michael <comtech.usa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I am installing a package called "fields" but it's for R version >
>> 2.13...
>>> 
>>> I only have R 2.12 on Linux.
>>> 
>>> How do I find the earlier version of "fields"?
>>> 
>>> Thanks a lot!