On 10/29/2020 01:49 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote: >> On Oct 29, 2020, at 1:29 PM, H <age...@meddatainc.com> wrote: >> >> I tried to install the fredr package yesterday to access the data series >> hosted by the St. Louis Fed but my installation of R, version 3.6, tells me >> it is not available from a cran repository. >> >> I could not find any information on this on the fredr information package >> and was wondering if anyone here might know? > > Hi, > > When that happens, check the CRAN page for the package: > > https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fredr/index.html > > where you will see that the package has been archived as a result of a lack > of response by the maintainer to problems with the package. > > The archive link on the above page allows you to download the last version of > the source package tarball, however, the check results for the package show > numerous issues. > > You may want to contact the package maintainer (sboy...@gmail.com) to see > what the current status of the package is, and if they plan to resolve the > issues. If not, consider alternative approaches. > > You should also consider updating your R installation, as 3.6.0 is well over > a year old at this point. 4.0.3 is the current stable release. > > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz
Thank you. That is very surprising! I would have thought there would be sufficient number of users and interest enough for this important package that it would be maintained! As for R 3.6, it is the latest version in the repository for my operating system, CentOS/RHEL... ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
