thanks both. I'll try that later at home. I thought I installed that package not that long ago but obviously time fly by as you get older: you wouldn't have a solution to that too???!


 
David Biau


>________________________________
> De : Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
>À : Biau David <djmbiau@yahoo.fr> 
>Cc : R-debian <r-sig-debian@r-project.org> 
>Envoyé le : Vendredi 14 décembre 2012 0h22
>Objet : Re: [R-sig-Debian] package ‘Design’ is not av ailable (for R version 2.15.2)
> 
>
>On 13 December 2012 at 21:31, Biau David wrote:
>| 
>| Dear all,
>| 
>| i have re-installed Debian on my computer and for some reason I cannot install some packages anymore using the install.package command from the R console. Some packages I can, and some I cannot (Design for instance)
>| 
>| this is what I get:
>| 
>| > install.packages('Design')
>| Installing package(s) into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
>| (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>| --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>| Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
>| Warning message:
>| package ‘Design’ is not available (for R version 2.15.2) 
>| 
>| 
>| 
>| Any idea why and how to sort the problem?
>
>Please see:  
>
>      http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Design/index.html
>
>which is standard boilerplate for removed packages.  In this case, either one 
>of
>
>    sudo apt-get install r-cran-rms
>
>or
>
>        install.packages("rms")
>
>will do the trick as Frank Harrell's "rms" package replaced his "Design"
>package several years ago.
>
>Hth,  Dirk
>
>| 
>| Thanks,
>| 
>|  
>| David Biau
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