[R] LaplacesDemon package installation

[(Ted Harding)]

See at [***] below.

On 04-Feb-2016 21:23:05 Rolf Turner wrote:
> 
> (1) You might get better mileage asking this on the r-sig-mac list.
> 
> (2) The phenomena you describe are puzzling and are beyond my capacity 
> to explain.  Perhaps someone else will be able to enlighten you.
> 
> (3) Out of idle curiosity I went to the github site and downloaded the
> zip file of the package.  (I could not see a *.tag.gz file, but perhaps 
> I just don't understand how github works.  Actually, there's no 
> "perhaps" about it!)
> 
> I unzipped the download and then did
> 
>      R CMD build LaplacesDemon-master
> 
> in the appropriate directory.  This created a file
> 
>      LaplacesDemon_15.03.19.tar.gz
> 
> Note that the version number seems to be as you require.
> 
> I then used your install.packages syntax, and the package installed 
> seamlessly.  It also loaded seamlessly.
> 
> So I don't know why the computer gods are picking on you.
>
[***] 
> Note that I am not working on a Mac, but rather running Linux (as do all 
> civilized human beings! :-) )

Might this be yet another candidate for a Fortune today?

Ted.

> cheers,
> 
> Rolf Turner
> 
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> 
> On 05/02/16 06:42, Lluis.Hurtado at uv.es wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I've recently changed my Mac and I am trying to reinstall my commonly
>> used R-packages. I'm having troubles with a package called
>> LaplacesDemon.
>>
>> This package is no more in the CRAN list and the developers web page
>> (http://www.bayesian-inference.com/software) is out for more than
>> half a year. Old versions of the package can still be found in tar.gz
>> in
>>
>> https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/LaplacesDemon/
>>
>> and in github
>>
>> https://github.com/ecbrown/LaplacesDemon
>>
>> Last version is LaplacesDemon_13.03.04.tar.gz, but I was able to get
>> version LaplacesDemon_15.03.19.tar.gz time ago (can't find it
>> anymore).
>>
>> I have tried to install this packages from source in my computer
>> using
>>
>>> install.packages("/Users/.../LaplacesDemon_15.03.19.tar.gz", repos
>>> = NULL, type="source")
>>
>> answer:
>>
>>> Warning: invalid package 'Users/.../LaplacesDemon_15.03.19.tar.gz’
>>> Error: ERROR: no packages specified Warning message: In
>>> install.packages("Users/.../LaplacesDemon_15.03.19.tar.gz",  :
>> installation of package ‘Users/.../LaplacesDemon_15.03.19.tar.gz’ had
>> non-zero exit status
>>
>> I also tried the 'Packages & Data' menu in R, selecting the source
>> file or the directory from Finder and I got this message:
>>
>>> * installing *source* package ‘LaplacesDemon’ ... ** R ** data **
>>> inst ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading ** help
>>> *** installing help indices ** building package indices **
>>> installing vignettes ** testing if installed package can be loaded
>>> * DONE (LaplacesDemon)
>>
>> but
>>
>>> library(LaplacesDemon)
>> Error in library(LaplacesDemon) : there is no package called
>> ‘LaplacesDemon’
>>
>> Finally I tried
>>
>>> install.packages("devtools") library(devtools)
>>> install_github("ecbrown/LaplacesDemon")
>>
>> but I am not able to install devtools (for similar reasons). So my
>> questions are:
>>
>> -Do anyone knows how to install this packages in my Mac? -Do anyone
>> knows were can I find the information previously content in
>> http://www.bayesian-inference.com/software?
> 
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E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at wlandres.net>
Date: 04-Feb-2016  Time: 22:03:31
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