Brian Lunergan wrote: > Uwe Ligges wrote: >> 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. > > FracSim_0.2.zip > http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.3/ > > RDCOMClient_0.91-0.zip > http://www.omegahat.org/R/bin/windows/contrib/R-2.3.0/ > > segmented_0.1-4.zip > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.1/ > > VGAM_0.6-9.zip > http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~yee/bin/windows/contrib/2.3/
None of them is on CRAN master: - RDCOMClient is on Omegahat - segmented is CRAN but outdated for R-2.1.x - VGAM is in a private repository - FracSim: I cannot access http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.3/ right now, but I guess it does not sync properly. At least, the package should not be there. Uwe Ligges > These are the versions I found and the locations. Other than perhaps > segmented all seem to be positioned as compatible with v2.3.x, but I own > that I could be incorrect in my assessment of the situation. > >>> 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... > ______________________________________________ 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