Alison Waller <alison.waller <at> embl.de> writes:
> I'm having problems installing plotrix. I tried installing it
> through install.packages, and from the
> unix command line, but each time it seems to stall when
> it is installing the help indices.
>
> has anyone had this same problem, is this package still maintained ?
>
> any help?
>
> thanks
> > install.packages("plotrix")
> >
> > I also tried using the source package
> > R CMD INSTALL plotrix_3.2-3.tar.gz
> >
> > both of them seemed to stall at installing help indices.
> > I cancelled after about 45 minutes of waiting.
> >
No problem here (R 2.13.1, Ubuntu, straight from the probability.ca
repository).
R version? Operating system (probably linux)? Recent success in installing
other packages? Results of tools::md5sum() and file.info()
on the .tar.gz file?
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