On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> You mean the package nls2 at >> >> http://w3.jouy.inra.fr/unites/miaj/public/AB/nls2/install.html >> >> and not the unfortunately named nls2 that has just appeared on CRAN? >> >> The first is not really a 'package' in the R sense. >> > Actually, it is one (sort of), but it is broken. The instructions say
In other words, it is 'not really' a package! You can install it following the instructions it contains, into the current workspace. > that you can use R CMD INSTALL to install in R < 2.0.0 (!) With a > current R, you can try but it dies: > > No man pages found in package 'nls2' > ** building package indices ... > Warning in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) : > cannot open file '../R/init.R', reason 'No such file or directory' > Error in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) : unable to open connection > Calls: <Anonymous> ... switch -> sys.source -> eval -> eval -> source -> > file > Execution halted > ERROR: installing package indices failed > ** Removing '/home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/nls2' > > ...and there were some odd goings-on at the start as well. > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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.
