Message-ID: <502E16F3.1010409@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
Date: 2012-08-17T10:03:31Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: Find and install old package to R 2.11 in UNIX
In-Reply-To: <D38D3275-E225-4CCA-9B2E-AEDAB786D8AC@comcast.net>
On 17.08.2012 02:42, David Winsemius wrote:
>
> On Aug 16, 2012, at 4:33 PM, Kevin Goulding wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm having trouble installing and using the 'foreign' package in R
>> on a
>> UNIX machine.
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
>> sparc-sun-solaris2.10
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>
>> Is there a way to find and install an old 'foreign' package that works
>> with
>> my machine?
>>
>> Does such a method generalize to finding other out-of-date packages
>> for my
>> machine?
>
> Yes, there is a general method. Install from archived package as source.
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive
>
>
Right, but then foreign is a recommended package and is shipped with
released versions of R, hence should be available already.
Best,
Uwe Ligges