On 10-11-16 10:37 PM, Brant Inman wrote: > R-helpers, > > I have had difficulty installing the "pcvsuite" package on R version > 2.12.0 (2010-10-15). The pcvsuite package is not available on CRAN, > but is located for download at the following website at the > University of Washington: > > Windows version http://labs.fhcrc.org/pepe/dabs/pcvsuite_1.0.zip > > Mac version > http://labs.fhcrc.org/pepe/dabs/pcvsuite_1.0_R_i386-apple-darwin8.11.1.tar.gz > > I am using a MacBook Pro and have both Windows 7 and Mac OS X snow > leopard installed on their respective partitions. When I install the > windows pcvsuite zip file on the Windows partition using R 2.12.0 (64 > bit), I get no problems. However, when I install the mac version of > pcvsuite on the Mac partition of the same computer and an identical > version of R (except for Mac), I get the following: > > * installing *binary* package ‘pcvsuite’ ... > > * DONE (pcvsuite) >> library(pcvsuite) > Error: package 'pcvsuite' was built before R 2.10.0: please > re-install it >>
This is because the Mac version was built under 2.9 and the Windows version was built under 2.10.1. > > Anybody have an idea of how I can use the pcvsuite package running on > R 2.12.0 for Mac? Write to the authors and ask for a source (.tgz) version? Run the package on windows, dump the R code to new .R files, and create your own package which you can then rebuild on the Mac? If you haven't built packages before this will take a bit of work (see the R Extensions manual), but if you really need these functions ... _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac