[R-SIG-Mac] Missing packages

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 11/04/2013 09:17, Petar Milin wrote:
>
> Hello!
> I wonder why some very basic packages are missing in R 3.0. My list of missing is:

Why do you claim that these are 'missing'?

Most are part of R: fire up R and do row.names(installed.packages(.Library))
And see the posting guide: there is no 'R 3.0', never has been and never 
will be.

> c(‘BiocGenerics’, ‘Rgraphviz’, ‘base’, ‘compiler’, ‘dataframe’, ‘datasets’, ‘grDevices’, ‘graph’, ‘graphics’, ‘grid’, ‘methods’, ‘parallel’, ‘splines’, ‘stats’, ‘stats4’, ‘tcltk’, ‘tools’)
>
> Some I am not using. Some, like base is reborn as base 64. Some might be from Bioconductor, I suppose. Most of those I needed long time ago, or they came as dependencies. However, things like methods, parallel etc., seems important.

BiocGenerics Rgraphviz and graph are from BioC.

datafame has been archived -- see 
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dataframe/index.html.  It does 
not work with R >= 3.0.0.

> Will those come eventually? How to bypass?


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