Ok, reading the tikz discussion list, I have discovered that the perspectives do not seem so gloom, the developer is preparing a new release for August that would comply with the constraints of CRAN. In the mean time the RForge road stays available.
Le mardi 17 juillet 2012, Yihui Xie a écrit : > Well, that is a sad story. CRAN has been "killing" R packages which do > not pass R CMD check. They have much less tolerance to such packages > now. Unfortunately the author of tikzDevice was unable to update his > package in time > ( > https://github.com/Sharpie/RTikZDevice/commit/95069e0a1deeb8fb9db028bbb76f227ddfcdc559#commitcomment-1562437 > ). > > Although it has been archived, you can still download the tar ball and > install it from source just like you install any *nix packages. > > An alternative way to install it, according to > https://github.com/Sharpie/RTikZDevice#obtaining-the-package, is: > install.packages( 'tikzDevice', repos='http://r-forge.r-project.org' ) > > Regards, > Yihui > -- > Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> > Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name > Department of Statistics, Iowa State University > 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA > > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Murat Yildizoglu > <myi...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > Thanks Yihui, > > That indeed solves my problem. > > A strange observation: I was reading the knitter documentation page and > > clicked by error on a tikzdevice and observed a sad message on CRAN: > > > > Package ‘tikzDevice’ was removed from the CRAN repository. > > > > Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive. > > > > This package has been archived: the maintainer felt unable to provide an > > update fixing WARNINGs within reasonable amount of time. > > > > It seems that we do not have any more this very useful device. Very > strange > > that such a useful library becomes unavailable.... > > > > Any information about this? > > > > > > Murat > -- Prof. Murat Yildizoglu Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113) Avenue Léon Duguit 33608 Pessac cedex France Bureau : E-331 yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr http://yildizoglu.info http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu
