

> Hello R-help,
> 
> 
> We are running R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03). I believe that I got it
> from www.sunfreeware.com. A number of the packages that we attempt to
> download from http://www.r-project.org/  give us the error message
> below when we attempt to run them.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I need to do to gett these packages to run
> properly?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> RP
> 
> > require("lars")
> Loading required package: lars
> Error in library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE,
> logical.return = TRUE,  : 
>   'lars' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0?
> 
> 
> They also all have this information in common when I run the library
> command (I've added the BOLD for emphasis).
> 
> FinTS                   ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> KernSmooth              Functions for kernel smoothing for Wand &
> Jones
>                         (1995)
> MASS                    Main Package of Venables and Ripley's MASS
> Matrix                  ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> R2HTML                  ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> RWinEdt                 ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> base                    The R Base Package
> boot                    Bootstrap R (S-Plus) Functions (Canty)
> bootstrap               ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> car                     ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> class                   Functions for Classification
> cluster                 Cluster Analysis Extended Rousseeuw et al.
> codetools               Code Analysis Tools for R
> datasets                The R Datasets Package
> foreign                 ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> gplots                  ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> grDevices               The R Graphics Devices and Support for Colours
>                         and Fonts
> graphics                The R Graphics Package
> grid                    The Grid Graphics Package
> lars                    ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> lattice                 Lattice Graphics
> methods                 Formal Methods and Classes
> mgcv                    GAMs with GCV smoothness estimation and GAMMs
>                         by REML/PQL
> nlme                    Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models
> nnet                    Feed-forward Neural Networks and Multinomial
>                         Log-Linear Models
> pastecs                 ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> pps                     ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> prettyR                 ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> rcompgen                Completion generator for R
> rpart                   Recursive Partitioning
> sampling                ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> spatial                 Functions for Kriging and Point Pattern
>                         Analysis
> splines                 Regression Spline Functions and Classes
> stats                   The R Stats Package
> stats4                  Statistical Functions using S4 Classes
> survey                  ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
> survival                Survival analysis, including penalised
>                         likelihood.
> tcltk                   Tcl/Tk Interface

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