[R] package ‘rggobi’ is not available (for R version 2.15.0)

[Peter Ehlers]

On 2012-06-29 07:11, YTP wrote:
> I don't know what a "binary package" or  "install from the sources" means. At
> any rate I think I have found a simpler solution to my problem.
>
> I read the following in the rggobi package readme file:
>
> Packages
> 	Cubist, OSACC, RSvgDevice, RSVGTipsDevice, SNPassoc, SNPRelate, eco,
> 	gcmrec, gdsfmt, magnets, mht, rggobi, survrec
> are only available for 32-bit installations and R<  2.15.0.
>
>
> So I downgraded my version of R to 2.14 and it appears to work fine now.  I
> don't know why such a simple key fact is buried in the middle of a text
> file, or not advertised more readily, but maybe this will help someone else.

This sounds like either a slur on the hard work done by the
CRAN maintainers (Uwe Ligges in particular) or an admission
that you find it difficult to click on 'ReadMe' and then search
for the word 'rggobi' in the file.
Took me all of about 5 seconds and I'm a slow typer.

Peter Ehlers