Brian Lunergan wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Brian Lunergan wrote: >> >>> Evening folks: >>> >>> I did an install.views of finance and econometrics and between the two of >>> them R reported 'FracSim', 'RDCOMClient', 'snow', 'VGAM', and 'segmented' >>> as missing dependencies. Now, I've managed to hunt down what appear to be >>> current zip file copies of all of the packages but 'snow'. Is there a >>> windows edition of the package out there someplace that will get along >>> with >>> R v2.3.1 and if so, how do I find it? >>> >>> Please and thanks... >> PLEASE read the README: >> >> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.3/@ReadMe >> >> and see the check summary at >> >> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/checkSummaryWin.html >> >> snow runs distributed R tasks across hosts: it has three modes and >> prefers PVM and MPI if packages rpvm or Rmpi are available (which they >> are not for Windows). As a result only some of its functionality can be >> used on Windows, and anyone who is going to get involved at that level >> of programming will very easily install the package from the sources. >> > Let me see if I understand this correctly. Something in the finance task > view would seem to consider snow a dependency; however, the package in > question has dragged it along for the ride into Windows, crippling its > usefulness. > > Problem and a question. Having checked the file on the UofT CRAN mirror > that lists dependencies for the available files snow only appears attached > to three of them, none of which are listed as part the finance view or > anything I already have on my system. What is R seeing these as a > dependency for then? Perhaps the view maintainers can suggest something? If > it is not available for windows and is only partially functional there can > it be safely ignored as a dependency? > > One other puzzle resulting from this. The check summary suggested problems > with 'FracSim', 'RDCOMClient', 'VGAM', and 'segmented' as windows packages > but yet the versions I found seemed to install without complaint onto my
Where did you find them? At least not in their current versions on the official repository on CRAN master for R-2.3.x, I hope. > system. Three gave back the successful unpack msg. VGAM did not, but > several of the demo scripts ran without complaint so I am assuming it is > comfortable with v2.3.1 on a windows system. Later versions of the four > than were tested in the check summary, perhaps? The check summary is recent. I can only imagine that you found earlier versions... Uwe Ligges ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html