I think it will come back again in the future. The maintainer is busy at the moment: https://github.com/Sharpie/RTikZDevice/commit/95069e0a1deeb8fb9db028bbb76f227ddfcdc559#commitcomment-1562437
For now, the easiest way to install it is probably via R-Forge: install.packages("tikzDevice", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") Or just download the tarball from CRAN and R CMD INSTALL it. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:54 AM, nikos giallousis <n31...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello people! > > I just formatted my disk, and I have installed R 2.14 over. Now I am trying > to restore my packages and all. > I realized that tikzDevice, a crucial package for me is gone. Fortunately, > I have kept my old, non-zipped, tikzDevice > folder, but none of the commands I know seems to handle this [i.e. load() > and install.packages()]. > > Thus the formulation is like this: > > how to install a package from a non-zipped folder > > Thanks a lot > > Nijk > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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-help@r-project.org 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.