Spencer Graves wrote: > 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.
No, you can use R-2.2.0, but simply use the last working version of Matrix (which is in the Windows repository again, as mentioned yesterday) rather than the most recent one. Exactly the same applies for R-2.1.1, hence no reason to switch back! Uwe Ligges > 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 >>> >>>______________________________________________ >>>[email protected] mailing list >>>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>>PLEASE do read the posting guide! >>>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> >>>______________________________________________ >>>[email protected] mailing list >>>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>>PLEASE do read the posting guide! >>>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> >> > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
