On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>
> On 20.08.2013 01:06, Daniel Nordlund wrote:
>> The file you had, assist_3.1.2.tar.gz, was not a Windows binary zip file.
>> It was a source tarball. That kind of file needs to be built and installed
>> differently. In order to do that, you need to have all the tools necessary
>> for building packages. This package does not have just pure R code in it,
>> but it has code that needs compiling. You need to determine why the package
>> was removed from CRAN. It may no longer work with current versions of R.
>> You probably need to contact the package maintainer to resolve this problem.
>> Sorry I can't provide more help.
>
>
> .... and possible reasons for package archivals on CRAN are unresponsive
> maintainers of packages that do not pass the checks without problems any more.
I have a copy of 'assist' installed (for some mysterious reason my GUI package
installer was able to find a binary copy for R 3.0.1 on my regular UC Berkeley
CRAN repos):
> maintainer("assist")
[1] "Chunlei Ke <chunlei...@yahoo.com>"
>From the description file:
Package: assist
Version: 3.1.2
Title: A Suite of S-Plus Functions Implementing Smoothing Splines
Depends: R (>= 1.7.0), nlme
URL: http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/faculty/yuedong/software.html
Packaged: 2013-03-12 15:29:39 UTC; ripley
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2013-03-12 16:30:20
NeedsCompilation: yes
Built: R 3.0.0; x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0; 2013-03-16 08:53:21 UTC; unix
Archs: assist.so.dSYM
I also installed from source and here are the warning messages:
gfortran-4.2 -arch x86_64 -fPIC -g -O2 -c rkpk1.f -o rkpk1.o
rkpk1.f:1972.72:
10 ASSIGN 30 TO NEXT
1
Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1)
rkpk1.f:1977.19:
20 GO TO NEXT,(30, 50, 70, 110)
1
Warning: Obsolete: Assigned GOTO statement at (1)
rkpk1.f:1979.72:
ASSIGN 50 TO NEXT
1
Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1)
rkpk1.f:1988.72:
ASSIGN 70 TO NEXT
1
Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1)
rkpk1.f:1994.72:
ASSIGN 110 TO NEXT
1
Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1)
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Good luck;
David.
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>>
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>>
>> Daniel Nordlund
>>
>> Bothell, WA USA
>>
>>
>>
>> _____
>>
>> From: Shang Zuofeng [mailto:zuofengsh...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 2:16 PM
>> To: Daniel Nordlund
>> Cc: r-help@r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Dan!
>>
>> The package is "assist" which can be downloaded from the following link:
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/assist/
>>
>> The one I chose was assist_3.1.2.tar.gz
>>
>> I have changed this file to .zip and installed it from local directory
>> through R. However, this method is still not working.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your kind help!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Zuofeng
>>
>> 2013/8/19 Daniel Nordlund <djnordl...@frontier.com>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org]
>>> On Behalf Of Shang Zuofeng
>>> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 1:26 PM
>>> To: r-help@r-project.org
>>> Subject: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN?
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> My project requires the use of a specific R package. However, this R
>>> package has been removed from CRAN. But its older version can be found.
>>> Unfortunately, the older version cannot be used. The thing is, after I
>>> downloaded the older version and unzip it into the library folder of R,
>>> and I input library("package name"), it says that the package "is not a
>>> valid installed package".
>>>
>>> After an intensive search, I found a possible solution: to rebuild this R
>>> package so that it may work properly. I have no idea how to make this
>>> achieved because of my little experience on rebuilding an R package.
>>>
>>> I highly appreciate your help.
>>>
>>> Sincere thanks.
>>> Zuofeng
>>>
>>
>> Well, you haven't told us enough to let us help you. Given that you have a
>> zip file, I will assume for the moment that you are using some variant of MS
>> Windows. I don't think you want to unzip that file directly. I think you
>> want open R, go to the packages menu and choose install package from local
>> zip file. Whether that will work depends on your version of R, your OS, the
>> requirements of the package, why it was removed from CRAN, and a host of
>> other things. If you want more detailed help, you need to provide the "at a
>> minimum" info requested in the posting guide. It would also help if you
>> told us what package you are trying to install.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> Daniel Nordlund
>> Bothell, WA USA
>>
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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