[R-SIG-Mac] manually load package

[Max Kuhn]

I'm working on it and will do more once I'm over the flu.=[

Max

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Frank Harrell <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> I would rather see the most effort put into getting the maintainer of
> contrast to update.  I've been warning about rms for a year and a half.
>
> Frank
>
>
> On 11/21/2011 05:35 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Lara R. Appleby 04 wrote:
>>
>>> I am using the "contrast" package (available from CRAN) which in
>>> turn depends on the "Design" package (no longer in CRAN).
>>
>> I see that you are right. It does show up in the binary packages when
>> I use the GUI installer but I suspect that is because I had it before.
>> From:
>> Documentation for package ‘contrast’ version 0.14
>> DESCRIPTION file.
>> Depends: R (>= 2.2.1), Design
>> Suggests: lattice, nlme, Hmisc, geepack, MASS, sandwich Description:
>> Contrast methods, in the style of the Design package, for fit objects
>> produced by the lm, glm, gls, and geese functions.
>>>
>>> I downloaded the Design package from a web archive. How do I load
>>> this into R?
>>
>> I was surprised to see that my older installed version of Design for R
>> 2.13.1 seemed to survive the update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) process
>> I subjected my library to. And loading 'package:contrast' does load
>> Design. (Which I then needed to detach since I use 'rms' and Design
>> unsurprisingly masked most of that package)
>>
>> If you had a prior copy of Design, you might first  try to copy it
>> directly into your 2.14 library folder and then run
>> update.packages("Design", checkBuilt=TRUE)
>>
>> If that is not an option, the Archive link at the bottom of the
>> contributed packages page should have the most recent version ....
>> from 2009.
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/Design/Design_2.3-0.tar.gz
>>
>>   You will need to use an Xcode-equipped version of MacOS to compile
>> that source package, since it does have binaries.
>>
>
> --
> Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chairman      School of Medicine
>                   Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University
>
>



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Max