On 29 February 2012 at 11:45, Jim Robison-Cox wrote: | Hi Ed, | | R 2.14.2 just came out, So I'm guessing that most packages are not | yet rebuilt for it.
This is not Windows, so binary packages are not being rebuilt anyway -- install.packages() only looks at src/contrib/. As R 2.14.2 itself, that actually was uploaded to Debian 'unstable' this morning as I usually find the time to do so on release day. Dirk | You should still be able to load them as in (from terminal prompt) | | wget http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/contrib/ctv_0.7-4.tar.gz | R CMD INSTALL ctv_0.7-4.tar.gz | | Jim Robison-Cox | | On 02/29/2012 11:33 AM, Ed Siefker wrote: | > Hi, I am running Debian Sid. I am having | > trouble with the R packages. | > | > Executing 'help()' or 'demo()' launches 'most' with no text. | > 'help.start()' works properly. | > | > When I try to install a package, I get the following problem: | > | > ********************************************************************* | >> install.packages("ctv") | > Installing package(s) into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’ | > (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) | > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- | > Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done | > Warning: unable to access index for repository | > http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/contrib | > Warning message: | > In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) : | > package ‘ctv’ is not available (for R version 2.14.2) | > ********************************************************************* | > | > The system in question has a direct connection to the internet. | > I can browse to the repository and find the ctv package. | > The user has read and write permissions on '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' | > | > I don't know what to do here. Can someone advise? | > | > _______________________________________________ | > R-SIG-Debian mailing list | > [email protected] | > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian | > | | | -- | --- | Jim Robison-Cox | Department of Math Sciences | 2-214 Wilson Hall | Montana State University | Bozeman, MT 59717-2400 | e-mail: [email protected] | phone: (406)994-5340 | | _______________________________________________ | R-SIG-Debian mailing list | [email protected] | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian -- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
