Message-ID: <4570C152.9060701@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 2006-12-01T23:57:06Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: package installation fails only for "sp"
In-Reply-To: <4570BBFE.1050303@u.washington.edu>
Don McKenzie wrote:
> I have escaped Splus for Windows (mostly) and have started using
> R (v 2.3.1 on i686 redhat). Installing packages has been routine except
> for "sp" (classes and methods for spatial data). I get the following error
> message
>
> > install.packages("sp")
> Warning in download.packages(unique(pkgs),destdir=tmpd,available=available,:
> no package 'sp' at the repositories
>
> Clearly I am missing something (probably obvious), but can someone
> enlighten me
> as to why the behavior of this package installation is different from
> others? sp is
> listed under "Contributed packages" at the R-project URL. Thank you
> for your time.
>
>
Try looking at the Depends: field....