[R-sig-Geo] 'sp' for 3.2.1

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Barry Rowlingson wrote:

> Roger Bivand wrote:
> 
> > 
> > For which OS/platform? All source packages are archived on CRAN:
> > 
> > http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive
> > 
> > and binary packages from CRAN (Windows, various Mac OSX) are in versioned 
> > directory trees, so R 2.3.1 will choose the 2.3 directory for the latest 
> > version of the package compatible with it.
> > 
> 
>   Do you have to tell install.packages() about this, because with R 
> 2.3.0 I get:
> 
>   > install.packages("sp",lib="~/Rlibs")
>   Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = 
> available,  :
>           no package 'sp' at the repositories

I do not think that install.packages() can handle this itself. It looks as 
though a combination of download.file() and install.packages() as shown in 
its example could do it (with repos=NULL), but the url in the Archives 
would have to be chosen by hand.

Roger

> 
> Barry
> 

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