On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Gavin Simpson wrote:
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 19:31 -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:32 PM, John Fox <j...@mcmaster.ca> wrote:
Dear Peng,
I'm tempted to try to get an entry in the fortunes package but will instead
try to answer your questions directly:
I can not install 'fortunes'. What are the fortunes packages about?
install.packages("fortunes", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org";)
Warning: unable to access index for repository
http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.9
Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
package ‘fortunes’ is not available
It is on CRAN. just do:
install.packages("fortunes")
Choose a repository near to you and it should install.
There appears to be a problem with R-forge and Mac OsX binaries. The
code you show above works for me on linux and R2.9.x
My understanding is that R-forge only supports binary builds for
current versions of R, so for both Windows and Mac OS X that means R
2.10.x only. Others can use type="source" (the default under Linux),
but this is another reason to keep your R up-to-date (as the posting
guide mentions): as my Mac is up-to-date this worked for me.
(The posting guide also mentions using a sensible subject line, so
I've changed this one.)
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