On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Spencer Graves wrote:
Dear Prof. Ripley: I just got a negative result from 'install.packages("gmp")': trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/PACKAGES'
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Warning message:
No package "gmp" on CRAN. in: download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, This was from R 2.0.1 under Windows 2000. I see "gmp" listed among contributed packages on CRAN, but the above command didn't get it for me.
That's because you did not look in the ReadMe! Really, you should know to do so by now: about 40 packages do not have Windows versions on CRAN and it all cases there is an explanation.
My ISP has lost the r-project.org domain in the last hour, so I can't actually check, but I think it is the same as
http://www.sourcekeg.co.uk/cran/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/@ReadMe
which says:
The packages fork, gmp, gtkDevice, hdf5, ncdf, nice, RArcInfo, RCurl, RNetCDF, rpart.permutation, rpvm, RQuantLib, RScaLAPACK, rsprng, snowFT, taskPR, and udunits require additional libraries / software to build on Windows I do not have installed.
The packages gmp, gsl, hdf5, ncdf, rgdal, RNetCDF, udunits, xgobi and XML do not build out of the box. Nevertheless these are available at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/2.0.0/ kindly provided by Professor Brian D. Ripley.
In R-devel (2.1.0-to-be) they will magically appear on the list if the repositories are the default list.
Thanks, spencer graves
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
See the gmp package on CRAN.
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Alexander Klimov wrote:
Is there a support of multiprecision arithmetics (e.g., interface to gmp)?
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