[R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN?
Daniel Nordlund
djnordlund at frontier.com
Tue Aug 20 01:58:11 CEST 2013
Yeah, I tried building the package and got essentially the same warnings and decided that further assistance required someone above my pay grade. :-)
Daniel Nordlund
Bothell, WA USA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
> On Behalf Of David Winsemius
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 4:43 PM
> To: Uwe Ligges
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org help
> Subject: Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from
> CRAN?
>
>
> On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>
> >
> > On 20.08.2013 01:06, Daniel Nordlund wrote:
> >> The file you had, assist_3.1.2.tar.gz, was not a Windows binary zip
> file. It was a source tarball. That kind of file needs to be built and
> installed differently. In order to do that, you need to have all the
> tools necessary for building packages. This package does not have just
> pure R code in it, but it has code that needs compiling. You need to
> determine why the package was removed from CRAN. It may no longer work
> with current versions of R. You probably need to contact the package
> maintainer to resolve this problem. Sorry I can't provide more help.
> >
> >
> > .... and possible reasons for package archivals on CRAN are unresponsive
> maintainers of packages that do not pass the checks without problems any
> more.
>
> I have a copy of 'assist' installed (for some mysterious reason my GUI
> package installer was able to find a binary copy for R 3.0.1 on my regular
> UC Berkeley CRAN repos):
>
> > maintainer("assist")
> [1] "Chunlei Ke <chunlei_ke at yahoo.com>"
>
> From the description file:
>
> Package: assist
> Version: 3.1.2
> Title: A Suite of S-Plus Functions Implementing Smoothing Splines
>
> Depends: R (>= 1.7.0), nlme
>
> URL: http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/faculty/yuedong/software.html
> Packaged: 2013-03-12 15:29:39 UTC; ripley
> Repository: CRAN
> Date/Publication: 2013-03-12 16:30:20
> NeedsCompilation: yes
> Built: R 3.0.0; x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0; 2013-03-16 08:53:21 UTC; unix
> Archs: assist.so.dSYM
>
>
> I also installed from source and here are the warning messages:
>
>
> gfortran-4.2 -arch x86_64 -fPIC -g -O2 -c rkpk1.f -o rkpk1.o
> rkpk1.f:1972.72:
>
> 10 ASSIGN 30 TO NEXT
> 1
> Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1)
> rkpk1.f:1977.19:
>
> 20 GO TO NEXT,(30, 50, 70, 110)
> 1
> Warning: Obsolete: Assigned GOTO statement at (1)
> rkpk1.f:1979.72:
>
> ASSIGN 50 TO NEXT
> 1
> Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1)
> rkpk1.f:1988.72:
>
> ASSIGN 70 TO NEXT
> 1
> Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1)
> rkpk1.f:1994.72:
>
> ASSIGN 110 TO NEXT
> 1
> Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1)
>
> -------------------------
> Good luck;
>
> David.
>
>
> >
> > Best,
> > Uwe Ligges
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Dan
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Daniel Nordlund
> >>
> >> Bothell, WA USA
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _____
> >>
> >> From: Shang Zuofeng [mailto:zuofengshang at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 2:16 PM
> >> To: Daniel Nordlund
> >> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> >> Subject: Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from
> CRAN?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks, Dan!
> >>
> >> The package is "assist" which can be downloaded from the following
> link:
> >>
> >> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/assist/
> >>
> >> The one I chose was assist_3.1.2.tar.gz
> >>
> >> I have changed this file to .zip and installed it from local directory
> through R. However, this method is still not working.
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot for your kind help!
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Zuofeng
> >>
> >> 2013/8/19 Daniel Nordlund <djnordlund at frontier.com>
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org]
> >>> On Behalf Of Shang Zuofeng
> >>> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 1:26 PM
> >>> To: r-help at r-project.org
> >>> Subject: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from
> CRAN?
> >>>
> >>> Dear All,
> >>>
> >>> My project requires the use of a specific R package. However, this R
> >>> package has been removed from CRAN. But its older version can be
> found.
> >>> Unfortunately, the older version cannot be used. The thing is, after I
> >>> downloaded the older version and unzip it into the library folder of
> R,
> >>> and I input library("package name"), it says that the package "is not
> a
> >>> valid installed package".
> >>>
> >>> After an intensive search, I found a possible solution: to rebuild
> this R
> >>> package so that it may work properly. I have no idea how to make this
> >>> achieved because of my little experience on rebuilding an R package.
> >>>
> >>> I highly appreciate your help.
> >>>
> >>> Sincere thanks.
> >>> Zuofeng
> >>>
> >>
> >> Well, you haven't told us enough to let us help you. Given that you
> have a zip file, I will assume for the moment that you are using some
> variant of MS Windows. I don't think you want to unzip that file
> directly. I think you want open R, go to the packages menu and choose
> install package from local zip file. Whether that will work depends on
> your version of R, your OS, the requirements of the package, why it was
> removed from CRAN, and a host of other things. If you want more detailed
> help, you need to provide the "at a minimum" info requested in the posting
> guide. It would also help if you told us what package you are trying to
> install.
> >>
> >> Dan
> >>
> >> Daniel Nordlund
> >> Bothell, WA USA
> >>
>
> David Winsemius
> Alameda, CA, USA
>
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