Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN?
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Shang Zuofeng zuofengsh...@gmail.com wrote: So this is an alternative method. The package can be installed from source() rather than rebuilt. Although the warnings exist, the package itself may still be useful. Can you let me know how to installed from source? Note that these discussions don't have anything to do with the source() function. Building from source has the sense of primal origin, not source the verb. Cheers, MW __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN?
So this is an alternative method. The package can be installed from source() rather than rebuilt. Although the warnings exist, the package itself may still be useful. Can you let me know how to installed from source? Thanks a lot! Zuofeng 2013/8/19 David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 20.08.2013 01:06, Daniel Nordlund wrote: The file you had, assist_3.1.2.tar.gz, was not a Windows binary zip file. It was a source tarball. That kind of file needs to be built and installed differently. In order to do that, you need to have all the tools necessary for building packages. This package does not have just pure R code in it, but it has code that needs compiling. You need to determine why the package was removed from CRAN. It may no longer work with current versions of R. You probably need to contact the package maintainer to resolve this problem. Sorry I can't provide more help. and possible reasons for package archivals on CRAN are unresponsive maintainers of packages that do not pass the checks without problems any more. I have a copy of 'assist' installed (for some mysterious reason my GUI package installer was able to find a binary copy for R 3.0.1 on my regular UC Berkeley CRAN repos): maintainer(assist) [1] Chunlei Ke chunlei...@yahoo.com From the description file: Package: assist Version: 3.1.2 Title: A Suite of S-Plus Functions Implementing Smoothing Splines Depends: R (= 1.7.0), nlme URL: http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/faculty/yuedong/software.html Packaged: 2013-03-12 15:29:39 UTC; ripley Repository: CRAN Date/Publication: 2013-03-12 16:30:20 NeedsCompilation: yes Built: R 3.0.0; x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0; 2013-03-16 08:53:21 UTC; unix Archs: assist.so.dSYM I also installed from source and here are the warning messages: gfortran-4.2 -arch x86_64 -fPIC -g -O2 -c rkpk1.f -o rkpk1.o rkpk1.f:1972.72: 10 ASSIGN 30 TO NEXT 1 Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1) rkpk1.f:1977.19: 20GO TO NEXT,(30, 50, 70, 110) 1 Warning: Obsolete: Assigned GOTO statement at (1) rkpk1.f:1979.72: ASSIGN 50 TO NEXT 1 Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1) rkpk1.f:1988.72: ASSIGN 70 TO NEXT 1 Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1) rkpk1.f:1994.72: ASSIGN 110 TO NEXT 1 Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1) - Good luck; David. Best, Uwe Ligges Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA _ From: Shang Zuofeng [mailto:zuofengsh...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 2:16 PM To: Daniel Nordlund Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN? Thanks, Dan! The package is assist which can be downloaded from the following link: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/assist/ The one I chose was assist_3.1.2.tar.gz I have changed this file to .zip and installed it from local directory through R. However, this method is still not working. Thanks a lot for your kind help! Best regards, Zuofeng 2013/8/19 Daniel Nordlund djnordl...@frontier.com -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto: r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Shang Zuofeng Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 1:26 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN? Dear All, My project requires the use of a specific R package. However, this R package has been removed from CRAN. But its older version can be found. Unfortunately, the older version cannot be used. The thing is, after I downloaded the older version and unzip it into the library folder of R, and I input library(package name), it says that the package is not a valid installed package. After an intensive search, I found a possible solution: to rebuild this R package so that it may work properly. I have no idea how to make this achieved because of my little experience on rebuilding an R package. I highly appreciate your help. Sincere thanks. Zuofeng Well, you haven't told us enough to let us help you. Given that you have a zip file, I will assume for the moment that you are using some variant of MS Windows. I don't think you want to unzip that file directly. I think you want open R, go to the packages menu and choose install package from local zip file. Whether that will work depends on your version of R, your OS, the requirements of the package, why it was removed from CRAN, and a host of other things
[R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN?
Dear All, My project requires the use of a specific R package. However, this R package has been removed from CRAN. But its older version can be found. Unfortunately, the older version cannot be used. The thing is, after I downloaded the older version and unzip it into the library folder of R, and I input library(package name), it says that the package is not a valid installed package. After an intensive search, I found a possible solution: to rebuild this R package so that it may work properly. I have no idea how to make this achieved because of my little experience on rebuilding an R package. I highly appreciate your help. Sincere thanks. Zuofeng [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN?
-Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Shang Zuofeng Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 1:26 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN? Dear All, My project requires the use of a specific R package. However, this R package has been removed from CRAN. But its older version can be found. Unfortunately, the older version cannot be used. The thing is, after I downloaded the older version and unzip it into the library folder of R, and I input library(package name), it says that the package is not a valid installed package. After an intensive search, I found a possible solution: to rebuild this R package so that it may work properly. I have no idea how to make this achieved because of my little experience on rebuilding an R package. I highly appreciate your help. Sincere thanks. Zuofeng Well, you haven't told us enough to let us help you. Given that you have a zip file, I will assume for the moment that you are using some variant of MS Windows. I don't think you want to unzip that file directly. I think you want open R, go to the packages menu and choose install package from local zip file. Whether that will work depends on your version of R, your OS, the requirements of the package, why it was removed from CRAN, and a host of other things. If you want more detailed help, you need to provide the at a minimum info requested in the posting guide. It would also help if you told us what package you are trying to install. Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN?
Thanks, Dan! The package is assist which can be downloaded from the following link: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/assist/ The one I chose was assist_3.1.2.tar.gz I have changed this file to .zip and installed it from local directory through R. However, this method is still not working. Thanks a lot for your kind help! Best regards, Zuofeng 2013/8/19 Daniel Nordlund djnordl...@frontier.com -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Shang Zuofeng Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 1:26 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN? Dear All, My project requires the use of a specific R package. However, this R package has been removed from CRAN. But its older version can be found. Unfortunately, the older version cannot be used. The thing is, after I downloaded the older version and unzip it into the library folder of R, and I input library(package name), it says that the package is not a valid installed package. After an intensive search, I found a possible solution: to rebuild this R package so that it may work properly. I have no idea how to make this achieved because of my little experience on rebuilding an R package. I highly appreciate your help. Sincere thanks. Zuofeng Well, you haven't told us enough to let us help you. Given that you have a zip file, I will assume for the moment that you are using some variant of MS Windows. I don't think you want to unzip that file directly. I think you want open R, go to the packages menu and choose install package from local zip file. Whether that will work depends on your version of R, your OS, the requirements of the package, why it was removed from CRAN, and a host of other things. If you want more detailed help, you need to provide the at a minimum info requested in the posting guide. It would also help if you told us what package you are trying to install. Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN?
The file you had, assist_3.1.2.tar.gz, was not a Windows binary zip file. It was a source tarball. That kind of file needs to be built and installed differently. In order to do that, you need to have all the tools necessary for building packages. This package does not have just pure R code in it, but it has code that needs compiling. You need to determine why the package was removed from CRAN. It may no longer work with current versions of R. You probably need to contact the package maintainer to resolve this problem. Sorry I can't provide more help. Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA _ From: Shang Zuofeng [mailto:zuofengsh...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 2:16 PM To: Daniel Nordlund Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN? Thanks, Dan! The package is assist which can be downloaded from the following link: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/assist/ The one I chose was assist_3.1.2.tar.gz I have changed this file to .zip and installed it from local directory through R. However, this method is still not working. Thanks a lot for your kind help! Best regards, Zuofeng 2013/8/19 Daniel Nordlund djnordl...@frontier.com -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Shang Zuofeng Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 1:26 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN? Dear All, My project requires the use of a specific R package. However, this R package has been removed from CRAN. But its older version can be found. Unfortunately, the older version cannot be used. The thing is, after I downloaded the older version and unzip it into the library folder of R, and I input library(package name), it says that the package is not a valid installed package. After an intensive search, I found a possible solution: to rebuild this R package so that it may work properly. I have no idea how to make this achieved because of my little experience on rebuilding an R package. I highly appreciate your help. Sincere thanks. Zuofeng Well, you haven't told us enough to let us help you. Given that you have a zip file, I will assume for the moment that you are using some variant of MS Windows. I don't think you want to unzip that file directly. I think you want open R, go to the packages menu and choose install package from local zip file. Whether that will work depends on your version of R, your OS, the requirements of the package, why it was removed from CRAN, and a host of other things. If you want more detailed help, you need to provide the at a minimum info requested in the posting guide. It would also help if you told us what package you are trying to install. Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN?
On 20.08.2013 01:06, Daniel Nordlund wrote: The file you had, assist_3.1.2.tar.gz, was not a Windows binary zip file. It was a source tarball. That kind of file needs to be built and installed differently. In order to do that, you need to have all the tools necessary for building packages. This package does not have just pure R code in it, but it has code that needs compiling. You need to determine why the package was removed from CRAN. It may no longer work with current versions of R. You probably need to contact the package maintainer to resolve this problem. Sorry I can't provide more help. and possible reasons for package archivals on CRAN are unresponsive maintainers of packages that do not pass the checks without problems any more. Best, Uwe Ligges Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA _ From: Shang Zuofeng [mailto:zuofengsh...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 2:16 PM To: Daniel Nordlund Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN? Thanks, Dan! The package is assist which can be downloaded from the following link: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/assist/ The one I chose was assist_3.1.2.tar.gz I have changed this file to .zip and installed it from local directory through R. However, this method is still not working. Thanks a lot for your kind help! Best regards, Zuofeng 2013/8/19 Daniel Nordlund djnordl...@frontier.com -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Shang Zuofeng Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 1:26 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN? Dear All, My project requires the use of a specific R package. However, this R package has been removed from CRAN. But its older version can be found. Unfortunately, the older version cannot be used. The thing is, after I downloaded the older version and unzip it into the library folder of R, and I input library(package name), it says that the package is not a valid installed package. After an intensive search, I found a possible solution: to rebuild this R package so that it may work properly. I have no idea how to make this achieved because of my little experience on rebuilding an R package. I highly appreciate your help. Sincere thanks. Zuofeng Well, you haven't told us enough to let us help you. Given that you have a zip file, I will assume for the moment that you are using some variant of MS Windows. I don't think you want to unzip that file directly. I think you want open R, go to the packages menu and choose install package from local zip file. Whether that will work depends on your version of R, your OS, the requirements of the package, why it was removed from CRAN, and a host of other things. If you want more detailed help, you need to provide the at a minimum info requested in the posting guide. It would also help if you told us what package you are trying to install. Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN?
Yeah, I tried building the package and got essentially the same warnings and decided that further assistance required someone above my pay grade. :-) Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of David Winsemius Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 4:43 PM To: Uwe Ligges Cc: r-help@r-project.org help Subject: Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN? On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 20.08.2013 01:06, Daniel Nordlund wrote: The file you had, assist_3.1.2.tar.gz, was not a Windows binary zip file. It was a source tarball. That kind of file needs to be built and installed differently. In order to do that, you need to have all the tools necessary for building packages. This package does not have just pure R code in it, but it has code that needs compiling. You need to determine why the package was removed from CRAN. It may no longer work with current versions of R. You probably need to contact the package maintainer to resolve this problem. Sorry I can't provide more help. and possible reasons for package archivals on CRAN are unresponsive maintainers of packages that do not pass the checks without problems any more. I have a copy of 'assist' installed (for some mysterious reason my GUI package installer was able to find a binary copy for R 3.0.1 on my regular UC Berkeley CRAN repos): maintainer(assist) [1] Chunlei Ke chunlei...@yahoo.com From the description file: Package: assist Version: 3.1.2 Title: A Suite of S-Plus Functions Implementing Smoothing Splines Depends: R (= 1.7.0), nlme URL: http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/faculty/yuedong/software.html Packaged: 2013-03-12 15:29:39 UTC; ripley Repository: CRAN Date/Publication: 2013-03-12 16:30:20 NeedsCompilation: yes Built: R 3.0.0; x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0; 2013-03-16 08:53:21 UTC; unix Archs: assist.so.dSYM I also installed from source and here are the warning messages: gfortran-4.2 -arch x86_64 -fPIC -g -O2 -c rkpk1.f -o rkpk1.o rkpk1.f:1972.72: 10 ASSIGN 30 TO NEXT 1 Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1) rkpk1.f:1977.19: 20GO TO NEXT,(30, 50, 70, 110) 1 Warning: Obsolete: Assigned GOTO statement at (1) rkpk1.f:1979.72: ASSIGN 50 TO NEXT 1 Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1) rkpk1.f:1988.72: ASSIGN 70 TO NEXT 1 Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1) rkpk1.f:1994.72: ASSIGN 110 TO NEXT 1 Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1) - Good luck; David. Best, Uwe Ligges Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA _ From: Shang Zuofeng [mailto:zuofengsh...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 2:16 PM To: Daniel Nordlund Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN? Thanks, Dan! The package is assist which can be downloaded from the following link: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/assist/ The one I chose was assist_3.1.2.tar.gz I have changed this file to .zip and installed it from local directory through R. However, this method is still not working. Thanks a lot for your kind help! Best regards, Zuofeng 2013/8/19 Daniel Nordlund djnordl...@frontier.com -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- project.org] On Behalf Of Shang Zuofeng Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 1:26 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN? Dear All, My project requires the use of a specific R package. However, this R package has been removed from CRAN. But its older version can be found. Unfortunately, the older version cannot be used. The thing is, after I downloaded the older version and unzip it into the library folder of R, and I input library(package name), it says that the package is not a valid installed package. After an intensive search, I found a possible solution: to rebuild this R package so that it may work properly. I have no idea how to make this achieved because of my little experience on rebuilding an R package. I highly appreciate your help. Sincere thanks. Zuofeng Well, you haven't told us enough to let us help you. Given that you have a zip file, I will assume for the moment that you are using some variant of MS Windows. I don't think you want to unzip that file directly. I think you want open R, go
Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN?
further assistance required someone above my pay grade. :-)
Perhaps you just need someone above your age - that is FORTRAN IV syntax
(maybe I and II as well) which was finally removed from the standard for
Fortran 95. If I recall that correctly from 1966 you can replace the
ASSIGN 30 TO NEXT
by
NEXT = 30
(and the same for the other ASSIGN's) and replace
GO TO NEXT,(30, 50, 70, 110)
by the sequence
IF (NEXT .EQ. 30) GO TO 30
IF (NEXT .EQ. 50) GO TO 50
IF (NEXT .EQ 70) GO TO 70
IF (NEXT .EQ. 110) GO TO 110
C SHOULD NEVER GET HERE - call some error reporting code to be careful
Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
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From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On
Behalf
Of Daniel Nordlund
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 4:58 PM
To: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN?
Yeah, I tried building the package and got essentially the same warnings and
decided that
further assistance required someone above my pay grade. :-)
Daniel Nordlund
Bothell, WA USA
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From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org]
On Behalf Of David Winsemius
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 4:43 PM
To: Uwe Ligges
Cc: r-help@r-project.org help
Subject: Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from
CRAN?
On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
On 20.08.2013 01:06, Daniel Nordlund wrote:
The file you had, assist_3.1.2.tar.gz, was not a Windows binary zip
file. It was a source tarball. That kind of file needs to be built and
installed differently. In order to do that, you need to have all the
tools necessary for building packages. This package does not have just
pure R code in it, but it has code that needs compiling. You need to
determine why the package was removed from CRAN. It may no longer work
with current versions of R. You probably need to contact the package
maintainer to resolve this problem. Sorry I can't provide more help.
and possible reasons for package archivals on CRAN are unresponsive
maintainers of packages that do not pass the checks without problems any
more.
I have a copy of 'assist' installed (for some mysterious reason my GUI
package installer was able to find a binary copy for R 3.0.1 on my regular
UC Berkeley CRAN repos):
maintainer(assist)
[1] Chunlei Ke chunlei...@yahoo.com
From the description file:
Package: assist
Version: 3.1.2
Title: A Suite of S-Plus Functions Implementing Smoothing Splines
Depends: R (= 1.7.0), nlme
URL: http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/faculty/yuedong/software.html
Packaged: 2013-03-12 15:29:39 UTC; ripley
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2013-03-12 16:30:20
NeedsCompilation: yes
Built: R 3.0.0; x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0; 2013-03-16 08:53:21 UTC; unix
Archs: assist.so.dSYM
I also installed from source and here are the warning messages:
gfortran-4.2 -arch x86_64 -fPIC -g -O2 -c rkpk1.f -o rkpk1.o
rkpk1.f:1972.72:
10 ASSIGN 30 TO NEXT
1
Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1)
rkpk1.f:1977.19:
20GO TO NEXT,(30, 50, 70, 110)
1
Warning: Obsolete: Assigned GOTO statement at (1)
rkpk1.f:1979.72:
ASSIGN 50 TO NEXT
1
Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1)
rkpk1.f:1988.72:
ASSIGN 70 TO NEXT
1
Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1)
rkpk1.f:1994.72:
ASSIGN 110 TO NEXT
1
Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1)
-
Good luck;
David.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
Dan
Daniel Nordlund
Bothell, WA USA
_
From: Shang Zuofeng [mailto:zuofengsh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 2:16 PM
To: Daniel Nordlund
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from
CRAN?
Thanks, Dan!
The package is assist which can be downloaded from the following
link:
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/assist/
The one I chose was assist_3.1.2.tar.gz
I have changed this file to .zip and installed it from local directory
through R. However, this method is still not working.
Thanks a lot for your kind help!
Best regards,
Zuofeng
2013/8/19 Daniel Nordlund djnordl...@frontier.com
-Original Message-
From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
project.org]
On Behalf Of Shang Zuofeng
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013
Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN?
On Aug 19, 2013, at 5:07 PM, Shang Zuofeng wrote: So this is an alternative method. The package can be installed from source() rather than rebuilt. Although the warnings exist, the package itself may still be useful. Can you let me know how to installed from source? Quite a bit of effort has gon e into the manuals shipped with every installation of R. You should have gotten a copy of this; http://www.cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html Thanks a lot! Zuofeng 2013/8/19 David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 20.08.2013 01:06, Daniel Nordlund wrote: The file you had, assist_3.1.2.tar.gz, was not a Windows binary zip file. It was a source tarball. That kind of file needs to be built and installed differently. In order to do that, you need to have all the tools necessary for building packages. This package does not have just pure R code in it, but it has code that needs compiling. You need to determine why the package was removed from CRAN. It may no longer work with current versions of R. You probably need to contact the package maintainer to resolve this problem. Sorry I can't provide more help. and possible reasons for package archivals on CRAN are unresponsive maintainers of packages that do not pass the checks without problems any more. I have a copy of 'assist' installed (for some mysterious reason my GUI package installer was able to find a binary copy for R 3.0.1 on my regular UC Berkeley CRAN repos): maintainer(assist) [1] Chunlei Ke chunlei...@yahoo.com From the description file: Package: assist Version: 3.1.2 Title: A Suite of S-Plus Functions Implementing Smoothing Splines Depends: R (= 1.7.0), nlme URL: http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/faculty/yuedong/software.html Packaged: 2013-03-12 15:29:39 UTC; ripley Repository: CRAN Date/Publication: 2013-03-12 16:30:20 NeedsCompilation: yes Built: R 3.0.0; x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0; 2013-03-16 08:53:21 UTC; unix Archs: assist.so.dSYM I also installed from source and here are the warning messages: gfortran-4.2 -arch x86_64 -fPIC -g -O2 -c rkpk1.f -o rkpk1.o rkpk1.f:1972.72: 10 ASSIGN 30 TO NEXT 1 Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1) rkpk1.f:1977.19: 20GO TO NEXT,(30, 50, 70, 110) 1 Warning: Obsolete: Assigned GOTO statement at (1) rkpk1.f:1979.72: ASSIGN 50 TO NEXT 1 Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1) rkpk1.f:1988.72: ASSIGN 70 TO NEXT 1 Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1) rkpk1.f:1994.72: ASSIGN 110 TO NEXT 1 Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1) - Good luck; David. Best, Uwe Ligges Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA _ From: Shang Zuofeng [mailto:zuofengsh...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 2:16 PM To: Daniel Nordlund Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN? Thanks, Dan! The package is assist which can be downloaded from the following link: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/assist/ The one I chose was assist_3.1.2.tar.gz I have changed this file to .zip and installed it from local directory through R. However, this method is still not working. Thanks a lot for your kind help! Best regards, Zuofeng 2013/8/19 Daniel Nordlund djnordl...@frontier.com -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Shang Zuofeng Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 1:26 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN? Dear All, My project requires the use of a specific R package. However, this R package has been removed from CRAN. But its older version can be found. Unfortunately, the older version cannot be used. The thing is, after I downloaded the older version and unzip it into the library folder of R, and I input library(package name), it says that the package is not a valid installed package. After an intensive search, I found a possible solution: to rebuild this R package so that it may work properly. I have no idea how to make this achieved because of my little experience on rebuilding an R package. I highly appreciate your help. Sincere thanks. Zuofeng Well, you haven't told us enough to let us help you. Given that you have a zip file, I will assume for the moment that you are using some variant of MS Windows. I don't think you want
