Uwe Ligges wrote: > Brian Lunergan wrote: >> Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>> On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Brian Lunergan wrote: >>> >>>> Evening folks: >>>> >>>> I did an install.views of finance and econometrics and between the >>>> two of >>>> them R reported 'FracSim', 'RDCOMClient', 'snow', 'VGAM', and >>>> 'segmented' >>>> as missing dependencies. Now, I've managed to hunt down what appear >>>> to be >>>> current zip file copies of all of the packages but 'snow'. Is there a >>>> windows edition of the package out there someplace that will get >>>> along with >>>> R v2.3.1 and if so, how do I find it? >>>> >>>> Please and thanks... >>> PLEASE read the README: >>> >>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.3/@ReadMe >>> >>> and see the check summary at >>> >>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/checkSummaryWin.html >>> >>> snow runs distributed R tasks across hosts: it has three modes and >>> prefers PVM and MPI if packages rpvm or Rmpi are available (which >>> they are not for Windows). As a result only some of its >>> functionality can be used on Windows, and anyone who is going to get >>> involved at that level of programming will very easily install the >>> package from the sources. >>> >> Let me see if I understand this correctly. Something in the finance >> task view would seem to consider snow a dependency; however, the >> package in question has dragged it along for the ride into Windows, >> crippling its usefulness. >> >> Problem and a question. Having checked the file on the UofT CRAN >> mirror that lists dependencies for the available files snow only >> appears attached to three of them, none of which are listed as part >> the finance view or anything I already have on my system. What is R >> seeing these as a dependency for then? Perhaps the view maintainers >> can suggest something? If it is not available for windows and is only >> partially functional there can it be safely ignored as a dependency? >> >> One other puzzle resulting from this. The check summary suggested >> problems with 'FracSim', 'RDCOMClient', 'VGAM', and 'segmented' as >> windows packages but yet the versions I found seemed to install >> without complaint onto my > > Where did you find them? At least not in their current versions on the > official repository on CRAN master for R-2.3.x, I hope.
FracSim_0.2.zip http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.3/ RDCOMClient_0.91-0.zip http://www.omegahat.org/R/bin/windows/contrib/R-2.3.0/ segmented_0.1-4.zip http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.1/ VGAM_0.6-9.zip http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~yee/bin/windows/contrib/2.3/ These are the versions I found and the locations. Other than perhaps segmented all seem to be positioned as compatible with v2.3.x, but I own that I could be incorrect in my assessment of the situation. >> system. Three gave back the successful unpack msg. VGAM did not, but >> several of the demo scripts ran without complaint so I am assuming it >> is comfortable with v2.3.1 on a windows system. Later versions of the >> four than were tested in the check summary, perhaps? > > The check summary is recent. I can only imagine that you found earlier > versions... -- Brian Lunergan Nepean, Ontario Canada --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0627-3, 2006-07-07 Tested on: 2006-07-09 09:34:29 avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2006 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com ______________________________________________ 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