In fact, I must have a broken installation of R then (though I have not noticed any other problems so far). The library MASS is neither pre-installed nor can I explicitly install it (though the internet connection is up and functional).
Thanks for all the help ! Markus 2010/3/9 Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> > > > On 09.03.2010 15:39, Ista Zahn wrote: > >> MASS is a recommended package, so is probably already installed on >> your machine. Try >> > > > And if installation fails, it is either your internet connection that does > not download the file in its original form or you have a broken installation > of R (which would also be indicated if MASS is not already installed given > you installed a released version of R). > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > > > > library(MASS) >> >> -Ista >> >> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Markus Loecher<markus.loec...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> The MASS package is listed on the CRAN web site ( >>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MASS/index.html) but I am unable >>> to >>> install it via install.packages(). The error is that the package is >>> "unavailable". When I manually download the source tar ball and try to >>> install it on a Linux machine, installation fails because "it is not a >>> valid >>> package". >>> >>> Do I need to search different repositories ? >>> Thanks, >>> Markus >>> >>> [[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. >>> >>> >> >> >> [[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.
