In fact, I must have a broken installation of R then (though I have not
noticed any other problems so far).
The library MASS is neither pre-installed nor can I explicitly install it
(though the internet connection is up and functional).

Thanks for all the help !

Markus

2010/3/9 Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>

>
>
> On 09.03.2010 15:39, Ista Zahn wrote:
>
>> MASS is a recommended package, so is probably already installed on
>> your machine. Try
>>
>
>
> And if installation fails, it is either your internet connection that does
> not download the file in its original form or you have a broken installation
> of R (which would also be indicated if MASS is not already installed given
> you installed a released version of R).
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>
>
>  library(MASS)
>>
>> -Ista
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Markus Loecher<markus.loecher@gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> The MASS package is listed on the CRAN web site (
>>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MASS/index.html) but I am unable
>>> to
>>> install it via install.packages(). The error is that the package is
>>> "unavailable". When I manually download the source tar ball and try to
>>> install it on a Linux machine, installation fails because "it is not a
>>> valid
>>> package".
>>>
>>> Do I need to search different repositories ?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Markus
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