(Ted Harding) wrote: > Hi Folks, > > This query arises out of a call for help from a friend > who has been running R version 1.9 unbder Windows XP, > and wanted advice on using install.packages() in order > to install the Windows binary of the package "Epi". > > Since this environment is outside my personal experience, > I could only help in a general way. I did manage to track > his problem down to the fact that package "Epi" did not > come on the scene until R version 2.1 was out, so there > was no "Epi" under > > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.9 > > which was where his install.packages() looked in the first > instance. Nor under 2.0 of course. > > I could not make out from the documentation how (or whether) > one could persuade it to look for the binary under a different > version branch. So I suggested he download the ZIP file and > try with "repos=NULL", as suggested (though without detail) > in the documentation. However, in the end he resolved the > issue by upgrading R to 2.2 which was no doubt a good idea > in its own right. > > But this still leaves me wondering (for possible future > reference) how, if one is using an old version of R under > Windows, one can instruct install.packages to look under > a later version for a Windows binary which only came on > the scene later.
Ted, if R is recent enough to support this install.packages arguments, something like install.packages("Epi", contriburl = "http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.2") should do the trick. Anyway, R-2.2.x binary packages are not compatible with R-1.9.x (AFAIR) and we already know that R-2.3.x binary packages won't be usable under R-2.2.x. Best, Uwe > With thanks, and best wsihes to all, > Ted. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 > Date: 18-Dec-05 Time: 18:44:08 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > 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