Hi Prof Brian,
Thank you for your email and for writing MASS. This book is brilliant.
----- Original Message ----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>
> To: Ben Rhelp <benrh...@yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: r-help@r-project.org
> Sent: Thu, 16 June, 2011 14:48:00
> Subject: Re: [R] Porting "unmaintained" packages to post R 2.10.0 era
>
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Mr Rhelp wrote:
>
[...]
>
> Sounds like you are doing this on Windows (please do tell us!) and trying to
>start with a Windows binary package.
>
Yes, sorry about that:
> version
_
platform x86_64-pc-mingw32
arch x86_64
os mingw32
system x86_64, mingw32
status
major 2
minor 13.0
year 2011
month 04
day 13
svn rev 55427
language R
version.string R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
[...]
> > Is there a HOWTO/porting guide for packages pre R 2.10.0 to post R 2.10.0?
>
> You don't need one. You start with the package sources, and install those.
>If you don't have the sources, you ask the author for the sources. But on
>the
>page you mention, I see
>
> 'unix/macs use the *.tar.gz version'
>
> by which they mean 'the source package'.
>
> (Note that for GPLed packages such as this one, the sources must be made
>available.)
>
> There are some errors in the format of the Rd files, but both packages
> install
>in R 2.13.0. However, you are supposed to get Java components from a site
>which no longer exists, so I think you are going to need to ask the author
>for
>help.
>
> One advantage of recent R is that to install packages like these from the
>sources you just need R, so there is no reason to distribute Windows binary
>packages (for such packages, with no C/C++/Fortran code).
>
Ok, my thinking was completely wrong. Your response help me to get things
working. I have updated the packages to work with the latest version of the
third party software (SoNIA) and I have contacted the original author with the
aim to distribute some updated versions of the packages.
[...]
Thanks a lot again for your help.
Best regards,
Ben
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