Thank you all for your replies and for all your hard work to make R what it is. The wise course for me is probably to use R 2.1.1 when I need the Matrix package until this issue gets fixed.
Best Wishes, spencer graves Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 11/11/2005 9:13 AM, Liaw, Andy wrote: > >> If you are installing from Windows, the current version of Matrix >> apparently >> doesn't build automatically on Windows. See: >> >> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.3/check/Matrix-check.log >> >> (That's for R-devel. There're similar problems on R-2.2.0.) >> >> I'm sure Doug is aware of this... > > > Yes, he is. Brian Ripley put together a copy that will build and > install on Windows; I think it is just a matter of a short wait before > those patches are incorporated in the main copy and it is sent to CRAN. > > Matrix is a big package, and it tests lots of code in R. I spent a day > earlier this week tracking down a bug in R-devel that it revealed. It > was a tricky one, because it only generated a warning; when warnings > were converted to errors, the problem went away. Luke Tierney pointed > out a nice trick that made it easier to find such a thing, and I've > added it to my debugging web page here: > > <http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/debuggingR/#tryCatch> > > Duncan Murdoch > >> >> Andy >> >>> From: Sean Davis >>> >>> On 11/11/05 8:38 AM, "Spencer Graves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> > Yesterday, I installed R2.2.0 for Windows [Version 2.2.0 (2005-10-06 >>> > r35749)]. Unfortunately, 'install.packages("Matrix")' produced the >>> > following message: >>> > > Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = >>> > available, : >>> > no package 'Matrix' at the repositories >>> > > I installed lme4, maps, mapproj, CircStats, scatterplot3d, >>> gregmisc, >>> > Hmisc without problems. To confirm, 'library(lme4)' produced the >>> > following error: >>> > > Error: package 'Matrix' required by 'lme4' could not be found >>> > > What do you suggest? >>> > Spencer Graves >>> > p.s. I get the same result using several different (US) mirrors. >>> >>> I found it here: >>> >> http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/src/contrib/Matrix_0.99-1.tar.gz >> >> and here: >> >> http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/Matrix_0.99-1.tar.gz >> >> at least. These are the only two I checked. >> >> Sean >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide! >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide! >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > -- Spencer Graves, PhD Senior Development Engineer PDF Solutions, Inc. 333 West San Carlos Street Suite 700 San Jose, CA 95110, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pdf.com <http://www.pdf.com> Tel: 408-938-4420 Fax: 408-280-7915 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html