[R] problems with FEAR

[peter dalgaard]

On Jan 23, 2012, at 15:38 , Uwe Ligges wrote:

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> 
> On 23.01.2012 15:12, Gilda Mazzarelli wrote:
>> Hi all!
>> I'va tried to install the routine FEAR in R, to compute DEA estimates for
>> an academic work.
>> I've downloaded and installed R (the last version 2.14.1) from
>> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN, and then I've downloaded FEAR, I've saved
>> it on the desktop, and following the instruction I've installed it on R
>> (from "Install package(S) from local zip files..).
>> After this, my R console window within R GUI appears as follow:
>> 
>>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
>> package ‘FEAR’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>>> library(FEAR)
>> Errore: package ‘FEAR’ is not installed for 'arch=i386'
> >
> 
> 
> Sounds like this package was not built for R for Windows or for an ancient version of it. Since I FEAR we do not have access to your FEAR, we can only guess....
> 

Well, it's easy enough to google for "fear dea", but asking Open Source proponents to agree to a non-commercial-use license in order to help people install a package might be stretching it. I'd say that the support burden lies on the author. 

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