thanks both. I'll try that later at home. I thought I installed that package not that long ago but obviously time fly by as you get older: you wouldn't have a solution to that too???!
 David Biau >________________________________ > De : Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> >à: Biau David <[email protected]> >Cc : R-debian <[email protected]> >Envoyé le : Vendredi 14 décembre 2012 0h22 >Objet : Re: [R-sig-Debian] package âDesignâ is not av ailable (for R >version 2.15.2) > > >On 13 December 2012 at 21:31, Biau David wrote: >| >| Dear all, >| >| i have re-installed Debian on my computer and for some reason I cannot >install some packages anymore using the install.package command from the R >console. Some packages I can, and some I cannot (Design for instance) >| >| this is what I get: >| >| > install.packages('Design') >| Installing package(s) into â/usr/local/lib/R/site-libraryâ >| (as âlibâ is unspecified) >| --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- >| Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done >| Warning message: >| package âDesignâ is not available (for R version 2.15.2) >| >| >| >| Any idea why and how to sort the problem? > >Please see: > >   http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Design/index.html > >which is standard boilerplate for removed packages. In this case, either one >of > >   sudo apt-get install r-cran-rms > >or > >    install.packages("rms") > >will do the trick as Frank Harrell's "rms" package replaced his "Design" >package several years ago. > >Hth, Dirk > >| >| Thanks, >| >|  >| David Biau >|    [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >| >| >| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >| _______________________________________________ >| R-SIG-Debian mailing list >| [email protected] >| https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > >-- >Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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