package installation fails only for "sp"
One thing you did miss was the request in the posting guide to update to the latest version of R before posting. Note that it is the download that fails, not the installation. There is a binary versioon of 'sp' for R 2.3.x on the CRAN master, so it looks like a problem with the CRAN mirror you are using -- but of course I don't have an outdated version of R installed to cross-check.
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, 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.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595