[R-sig-ME] MCMCglmm installation error

[Ben Bolker]

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On 05/18/2011 02:27 PM, Ryan Buell wrote:
> Is there an alternative option to upgrading R? 
> I'm trying to run MCMCglmm on my school's grid 
> server, and the version of R is outdated (circa October 
> 2009). I was thinking perhaps an older version of 
> MCMCglmm might do the trick (like those at 
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/MCMCglmm/)
> , but I haven't been able to figure out how to make 
> that work yet. Thanks for your help!
> 

  If you download  a .tar.gz file from there and run

R CMD INSTALL MCMCglm_x.y.tar.gz

on the server (i.e. on an interactive or test node), does it work?
(Consider the --library=LIB flag if you need to put it somewhere outside
the system-wide R directory.)

  I would try that, but set yourself a time limit for resolving
difficulties -- you can easily get yourself into a dependency hell
trying to recreate the R ecosystem as of a particular date in the past.


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