[R] install.packages on windows

[Uwe Ligges]

On 28.09.2012 00:32, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 12-09-27 2:53 PM, Anju R wrote:
>> Sometimes when I try to install certain packages I get a warning message.
>> For example, I tried to install the package "Imtest" on windows R version
>> 2.15.1 and got the following message:
>>
>> Warning message:
>> package ‘Imtest’ is not available (for R version 2.15.1)
>>
>> How can I install the above package? Why do I get the above Warning
>> message?
>
> It probably means exactly what it says, except that the information is
> about the mirror you are using.
>
> I would try another mirror.  If that doesn't solve it, then it probably
> means that the package is really not available for 2.15.1.
>
> You can look on the cran.r-project.org website for information about it,
> and probably download the source from there, but you will probably need
> to fix whatever is wrong with it before it will work.


Or in other words:

There is no such package "Imtest" on CRAN, perhaps you are looking for 
"lmtest"?

Uwe Ligges



> Duncan Murdoch
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