Well, that is a sad story. CRAN has been "killing" R packages which do not pass R CMD check. They have much less tolerance to such packages now. Unfortunately the author of tikzDevice was unable to update his package in time (https://github.com/Sharpie/RTikZDevice/commit/95069e0a1deeb8fb9db028bbb76f227ddfcdc559#commitcomment-1562437).
Although it has been archived, you can still download the tar ball and install it from source just like you install any *nix packages. An alternative way to install it, according to https://github.com/Sharpie/RTikZDevice#obtaining-the-package, is: install.packages( 'tikzDevice', repos='http://r-forge.r-project.org' ) Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Murat Yildizoglu <myi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Yihui, > That indeed solves my problem. > A strange observation: I was reading the knitter documentation page and > clicked by error on a tikzdevice and observed a sad message on CRAN: > > Package ‘tikzDevice’ was removed from the CRAN repository. > > Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive. > > This package has been archived: the maintainer felt unable to provide an > update fixing WARNINGs within reasonable amount of time. > > It seems that we do not have any more this very useful device. Very strange > that such a useful library becomes unavailable.... > > Any information about this? > > > Murat
