Re: [R] Accessing defunct package

2015-09-25 Thread David Winsemius
On Sep 25, 2015, at 11:23 AM, Dennis Fisher wrote: > David > > Thanks for suggesting this. Three issues of note: > > 1. I too work on a Mac. When I downloaded the last archived version (which > has a .gz extension), OS X automatically unzipped the file and removed the > .gz extension. I w

Re: [R] Accessing defunct package

2015-09-25 Thread Sarah Goslee
Not an R question, but tangentially relevant: On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Dennis Fisher wrote: > David > > Thanks for suggesting this. Three issues of note: > > 1. I too work on a Mac. When I downloaded the last archived version (which > has a .gz extension), OS X automatically unzipped

Re: [R] Accessing defunct package

2015-09-25 Thread Dennis Fisher
David Thanks for suggesting this. Three issues of note: 1. I too work on a Mac. When I downloaded the last archived version (which has a .gz extension), OS X automatically unzipped the file and removed the .gz extension. I was able to gzip the file so that I could execute your exact comman

Re: [R] Accessing defunct package

2015-09-25 Thread Ben Bolker
Dennis Fisher plessthan.com> writes: > Colleagues, > > In the past, I used a package: > SASxport > to output files to SAS’s XPT format. This was useful because FDA requests that data be submitted in that > format (even though they typically must reconvert to some other format before the

Re: [R] Accessing defunct package

2015-09-25 Thread David Winsemius
I think it might be even simpler at least for now. The error checking done by CRAN can be more rigorous than that done when an installation is done locally. I don't see a report in the current package checks listing of what error was identified, but experimentation is always an option. When I d

Re: [R] Accessing defunct package

2015-09-25 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Obtain the source package and fix it? Most errors are relatively minor adjustments that just require reading the updated "Writing R Extensions" document to figure out. You might be unlucky, but I think the odds are in your favor. --

Re: [R] Accessing defunct package

2015-09-25 Thread Marc Schwartz
> On Sep 25, 2015, at 9:25 AM, Dennis Fisher wrote: > > R 3.2.0 > OS X > > Colleagues, > > In the past, I used a package: > SASxport > to output files to SAS’s XPT format. This was useful because FDA requests > that data be submitted in that format (even though they typically must > r

[R] Accessing defunct package

2015-09-25 Thread Dennis Fisher
R 3.2.0 OS X Colleagues, In the past, I used a package: SASxport to output files to SAS’s XPT format. This was useful because FDA requests that data be submitted in that format (even though they typically must reconvert to some other format before the data are used). It appears that t