FYI: quantreg_3.32.tar.gz passes Rcmd check on Windows and the binary will be on CRAN within a couple of days (I don't know when CRAN master mirrors my archives again, because of the announced shutdown).
I will try to get automated e-mails to package maintainers of "erroneous" (in Windows) packages into my scripts. An announcement to all package maintainers will follow in a couple of days. Uwe Roger Koenker wrote: > > You are right, of course, it would be nice to have notification, > but I'm also sympathetic to Uwe's situation, and not everything > that could be automated, could be _easily_ automated within the > constraints imposed by the rest of world. The lesson I've drawn > from this is that complaints will appear, and the check directory > does help explain problems. My real difficulty is that I have > no good way to explore windows specific problems. But this is > just the flip side of saying what a great thing it is that > the windows binaries are usually appearing automagically without > any problems! > > Roger > > url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/my.html Roger Koenker > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics > vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois > fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820 > > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Achim Zeileis wrote: > > > It happened for the second time in a week that a Windows binary for a > > CRAN package was not availabe (Hmisc and quantreg) although the > > package maintainer would have been willing to try to fix the problems > > that prevented automatic pre-compilation if he would have realized > > that there is a problem on Windows. > > Of course, the information was provided on CRAN, but I thought that it > > might help to automatically notify the package maintainers if some > > conflicts occur on Windows. I would appreciate such a notification if > > one of my packages would have failed to compile...and it is not very > > unlikely that I wouldn't have discovered it myself. > > > > I already asked Uwe privately and he would be willing to provide a > > notification but maybe there are concerns or objections from the > > maintainers? > > > > best, > > Z > > > > > > On Thursday 23 October 2003 17:28, Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > > > Radaelli Paolo - Dottorati di Ricerca wrote: > > > > I saw the read-me but I didn't undersstand wich is the problem. I > > > > only know that in a previous version of R I installed on my pc it > > > > was all ok. > > > > > > Yes, but on the recent version it is *not* OK. > > > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/check/quantreg-che > > >ck.log tells you: > > > > > > [...] > > > * checking examples ... ERROR > > > Running examples in quantreg-Ex.R failed. > > > > > > BTW: Efforts have been made to upload these check logs to CRAN in > > > order to provide you with this information, so please read those > > > files! > > > > > > > > > Looking closer (as a hint for Roger), R *crashes* when running the > > > examples in ?boot.rq. > > > > > > > So know I have to download the extensions files and then compile > > > > them on my own ? > > > > > > You can download the source package and compile from source (I don't > > > know of any "extensions files"). > > > Attention: The problem not passing Rcmd check remains (almost > > > certain). > > > > > > Uwe Ligges > > > > > > > Thank you > > > > Paolo Radaelli > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Uwe Ligges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: "Radaelli Paolo - Dottorati di Ricerca" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:44 PM > > > > Subject: Re: [R] Quantreg Package > > > > > > > >>Radaelli Paolo - Dottorati di Ricerca wrote: > > > >>>I've just installed R 1.0.8 (for Windows) and I tried to install > > > >>> the > > > > > > > > package Quantreg directly from Cran but it's not in the list of > > > > downlodable packages. > > > > > > > >>>I tried also downloading the zip file and then install it but > > > >>> there is > > > > > > > > an error. > > > > > > > >>>How can I do it? > > > >>>Thank you > > > >>>[[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > >>> > > > >>>______________________________________________ > > > >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > >>>https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > >> > > > >>CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/ReadMe tells you that Windows > > > >> binaries of those packages not passing Rcmd check are not > > > >> published on CRAN. And the corresponding Status file and > > > >> check-log tells you quantreg is among those packages. > > > >> > > > >>So you have to compile from source yourself. > > > >> > > > >>Uwe Ligges > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help