Dear Henric,

Thank you so much. I was able to successfully install the "rqpd" package 
on my Windows machine (win 7) using the R.2.15.1 version.
I greatly appreciate your wonderful help.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Manish


On 6/4/2013 3:54 PM, Henric Winell wrote:
> Manish,
>
> Manish K. Srivastava skrev 2013-06-03 16:19:
>> Hello R community members,
>>
>> I'm trying to install the 'rqpd' package which is developed by Roger
>> Koenker and Stefan Bache. When I try to install the package using the
>> command 'install.packages("rqpd",repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")'
>> I'm getting the following two messages:
>>
>> i) package ‘rqpd’ is available as a source package but not as a binary
>> ii) package ‘rqpd’ is not available (for R version 3.0.1)
>
> Are you using Windows or OS X?  R-Forge doesn't currently provide 
> binaries for OS X.
>
>> On checking the Log of /pkg on the r-forge.r.project.org website, I find
>> that the package was last modified on May 8,2012 and was made compatible
>> with R>2.14.
>>
>> "Quick fix to make it compile for R >= 2.14"
>>
>>
>> So, in another attempt, I downloaded the older version of R (2.14) to
>> see if the 'rqpd' package could be installed using the older version,
>> but still I had no luck.
>
> That's because R-Forge no longer provide binaries for 2.14.x.
>
>>
>>
>> Is there any way I could still use this package?
>
> Binaries seem to be available for 2.15.x.  Alternatively, you can 
> always build from source and that'll work for 3.0.x.
>
>
> HTH,
> Henric
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Manish
>>
>>
>


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