[R] Package 'compositions' and R-3.1.0

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed May 14 07:35:09 CEST 2014


On 13/05/2014 23:18, David Winsemius wrote:
>
> On May 13, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
>> On 14/05/14 09:21, Rich Shepard wrote:
>>>    I just tried to install 'compositions'. It's apparently not yet
>>> available
>>> for R-3.1.0. How can I learn when it might be available?
>>
>> The compositions package has apparently been archived:
>>
>>> Package ‘compositions’ was removed from the CRAN repository.
>>>
>>> Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive.
>>>
>>> Archived on 2014-05-01 as undefined-behaviour errors were not
>>> corrected (and previously archived on 2014-03-07).
>>
>>
>> You could try retrieving the package from the archive and fixing it yourself.  Good luck!
>
> There was just a posting on R-devel today that suggested compiling from source has a good chance to succeed without even fixes.
>
Yes, but not giving correct results ....

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