Use a version from the archives available on the link you quoted. 

If you really want the current version, you could try to change the dependency before installation but I imagine the maintainer put it there for good reasons. 

Of course, the real answer is to update R. 

Michael

PS - If I remember right, Dirk makes packages available for Debian Linux distributions so your suggestion that Linux builds are necessarily from source is not universally true

On Jan 12, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Michael <comtech.usa@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fields/index.html
>  
> As you can see, it clearly stated that "> 2.13"...
>  
> I thought in Linux, we default to download and build from the source...
>  
> using "install.packages()" ...
>  
> How do I really build it for 2.12?
> 
> 
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> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:12 AM, R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt@gmail.com> <michael.weylandt@gmail.com> wrote:
> I assume you mean it's not on CRAN. You'll have to build from source. The easiest way to do so is with the "type" argument to install.packages()
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Jan 12, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Michael <comtech.usa@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am installing a package called "fields" but it's for R version > 2.13...
> >
> > I only have R 2.12 on Linux.
> >
> > How do I find the earlier version of "fields"?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
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