Hi Folks, This query arises out of a call for help from a friend who has been running R version 1.9 unbder Windows XP, and wanted advice on using install.packages() in order to install the Windows binary of the package "Epi".
Since this environment is outside my personal experience, I could only help in a general way. I did manage to track his problem down to the fact that package "Epi" did not come on the scene until R version 2.1 was out, so there was no "Epi" under http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.9 which was where his install.packages() looked in the first instance. Nor under 2.0 of course. I could not make out from the documentation how (or whether) one could persuade it to look for the binary under a different version branch. So I suggested he download the ZIP file and try with "repos=NULL", as suggested (though without detail) in the documentation. However, in the end he resolved the issue by upgrading R to 2.2 which was no doubt a good idea in its own right. But this still leaves me wondering (for possible future reference) how, if one is using an old version of R under Windows, one can instruct install.packages to look under a later version for a Windows binary which only came on the scene later. With thanks, and best wsihes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 18-Dec-05 Time: 18:44:08 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
