Re: [R] package installation fails only for sp
Thanks to Brian Ripley and Roger Bivand for their quick replies to my question (original post below). Both politely pointed out that I had failed to check if I was running the latest version of R (2.4). I was attempting to download the current version of the sp package, which is not compatible with v 2.3. On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Don McKenzie wrote: I have escaped Splus for Windows (mostly) and have started using R (v 2.3.1 on i686 redhat). Installing packages has been routine except for sp (classes and methods for spatial data). I get the following error message install.packages(sp) Warning in download.packages(unique (pkgs),destdir=tmpd,available=available,: no package 'sp' at the repositories Clearly I am missing something (probably obvious), but can someone enlighten me as to why the behavior of this package installation is different from others? sp is listed under Contributed packages at the R-project URL. Thank you for your time. Don McKenzie, Research Ecologist Pacific WIldland Fire Sciences Lab US Forest Service Affiliate Assistant Professor College of Forest Resources CSES Climate Impacts Group University of Washington 206.732.7824 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
[R] package installation fails only for sp
I have escaped Splus for Windows (mostly) and have started using R (v 2.3.1 on i686 redhat). Installing packages has been routine except for sp (classes and methods for spatial data). I get the following error message install.packages(sp) Warning in download.packages(unique(pkgs),destdir=tmpd,available=available,: no package 'sp' at the repositories Clearly I am missing something (probably obvious), but can someone enlighten me as to why the behavior of this package installation is different from others? sp is listed under Contributed packages at the R-project URL. Thank you for your time. -- ___ Don McKenzie, Research Ecologist Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab USDA Forest Service 400 N 34th St. #201 Seattle, WA 98103, USA (206) 732-7824 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Affiliate Assistant Professor College of Forest Resources CSES Climate Impacts Group University of Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] package installation fails only for sp
Don McKenzie wrote: I have escaped Splus for Windows (mostly) and have started using R (v 2.3.1 on i686 redhat). Installing packages has been routine except for sp (classes and methods for spatial data). I get the following error message install.packages(sp) Warning in download.packages(unique(pkgs),destdir=tmpd,available=available,: no package 'sp' at the repositories Clearly I am missing something (probably obvious), but can someone enlighten me as to why the behavior of this package installation is different from others? sp is listed under Contributed packages at the R-project URL. Thank you for your time. Try looking at the Depends: field __ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] package installation fails only for sp
One thing you did miss was the request in the posting guide to update to the latest version of R before posting. Note that it is the download that fails, not the installation. There is a binary versioon of 'sp' for R 2.3.x on the CRAN master, so it looks like a problem with the CRAN mirror you are using -- but of course I don't have an outdated version of R installed to cross-check. On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Don McKenzie wrote: I have escaped Splus for Windows (mostly) and have started using R (v 2.3.1 on i686 redhat). Installing packages has been routine except for sp (classes and methods for spatial data). I get the following error message install.packages(sp) Warning in download.packages(unique(pkgs),destdir=tmpd,available=available,: no package 'sp' at the repositories Clearly I am missing something (probably obvious), but can someone enlighten me as to why the behavior of this package installation is different from others? sp is listed under Contributed packages at the R-project URL. Thank you for your time. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] package installation fails only for sp
Sorry, I missed that 'i686 redhat' might mean Red Hat, that is a form of Linux. The advice in the first para applies: the current version of 'sp' in the source area on CRAN is for R=2.4.0: see http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/sp.html If you cannot update your R, there are versions of 'sp' available in the Archive area on CRAN that willl work with R 2.3.1. On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: One thing you did miss was the request in the posting guide to update to the latest version of R before posting. Note that it is the download that fails, not the installation. There is a binary version of 'sp' for R 2.3.x on the CRAN master, so it looks like a problem with the CRAN mirror you are using -- but of course I don't have an outdated version of R installed to cross-check. On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Don McKenzie wrote: I have escaped Splus for Windows (mostly) and have started using R (v 2.3.1 on i686 redhat). Installing packages has been routine except for sp (classes and methods for spatial data). I get the following error message install.packages(sp) Warning in download.packages(unique(pkgs),destdir=tmpd,available=available,: no package 'sp' at the repositories Clearly I am missing something (probably obvious), but can someone enlighten me as to why the behavior of this package installation is different from others? sp is listed under Contributed packages at the R-project URL. Thank you for your time. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
