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

[Uwe Ligges]

On 29.06.2012 21:03, YTP wrote:
>
>
> My criticism is aimed at the previous reply, which gave an arcane and not
> helpful suggestion (granted, it may only seem that way to me because of my
> own incompetence, but I don't know that the knowledge needed to understand
> "binary package" and "install from the sources" is what you want to
> require/assume of all R users) which was especially disappointing given the
> much simpler solution that exists.
>
> More aggravating is the GGobi website which only has a 64 bit download,
> which required much work to find a 32 bit download, whereupon the package
> RGGobi only produces a non-descriptive error message, which required days of
> reading through many forums which only have complicated half-solutions, and
> then find in the middle of the readme file that the package just doesn't
> work with the latest version of R. Not to mention saying it's only available
> for 32 bit installations is completely contradictory to only having the 64
> bit version of GGobi available.
>
> I still stand by saying that this is a very poor user experience in
> acquiring a package and getting it to work.
>
> To say the workaround I found "only takes 5 seconds" is akin to saying "well
> if you did the thing that works first you'd have solved your problem much
> quicker", which is of course vacuously true, but ignores the time spent
> beforehand which was orders of magnitude greater timewise.
>
> My post is clearly about one specific package, there is no basis to think I
> am criticizing the work done by some large group of CRAN maintainers,

Where large equals 3 for accepting submissions of source packages.

If you'd like to see an easier installation for ggobi, pelase contact 
the maintainers of that third party software. If you want to say 
something about Rggobi installation, please contact the package maintainer.

Best,
Uwe Ligges


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> alone anyone in particular not associated with the one package relevant to
> my post.
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