[R] Rbbg usurped ?

[Sarah Goslee]

If you actually visit that link, you will see that the directory structure
isn't laid out in the way that install.packages() currently expects for a
repo, but that you can still download the package yourself, and presumably
install it from local file.


On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 4:41 AM Tolga Uzuner <tolga at coubros.com> wrote:

> Dear R users,
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> I have some old code that was using Rbbg, which no longer appears to be
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> working.
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> I tried to download Rbbg using the line:
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> install.packages("Rbbg", repos = "http://r.findata.org")
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> in R version 3.3.2 on a Windows 10 machine and got the following error:
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>  > install.packages("Rbbg", repos = "http://r.findata.org")
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> Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Tolga/Documents/R/win-library/3.3’
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> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
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> Warning: unable to access index for repository
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> http://r.findata.org/src/contrib:
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>    cannot open URL 'http://r.findata.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
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> Warning: unable to access index for repository
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> http://r.findata.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3:
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>    cannot open URL 'http://r.findata.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/PACKAGES'
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> Warning message:
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> package ‘Rbbg’ is not available (for R version 3.3.2)
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> Is Rbbg no longer supported ? Has it been usurped by something else ?
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> Does this mean I have to rewrite code or is the new package compatible
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> with code written for Rbbg ?
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> Thanks in advance
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