[R-SIG-Mac] R 2.14.0 on MacBook Pro

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please select a real CRAN mirror, not a broken one.

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Christopher Giguere wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am working on a Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549). I need to install the package *
> fracdiff*. When I first ran into an issue I upgraded to R version 2.14 and
> tried to install again. Each time the Package Installer returned the same
> error that Jan and Federico encountered last week. I read through the
> exchanges between Jan, Simon, and Federico from last week and followed the
> directions to try and fix my error, but I am still unable to install the
> packages. Clearly I am missing something.
>
> I downloaded and installed *R-devel-leopard.pkg *and* **
> R-GUI-5947-2.14-leopard-Leopard64.dmg* from http://r.research.att.com/ (the
> version posted yesterday 11/15/2011).
>
> Can someone please help me understand what I have done wrong so that I can
> fix it?
>
> Thank you very much for your time and assistance.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> R version 2.14.0 Patched (2011-11-15 r57665)
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> [R.app GUI 1.43 (5947) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0]
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> [Workspace restored from /Users/giguerecs/.RData]
> [History restored from /Users/giguerecs/.Rapp.history]
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> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.14
>>
>>
>>
>> install.packages("zoo")
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.14
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>  package ?zoo? is not available (for R version 2.14.0 Patched)
>>
>>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.0 Patched (2011-11-15 r57665)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.14.0
>
>
> -- 
> Chris Giguere
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