Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612020724520.14260@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2006-12-02T07:28:26Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: package installation fails only for "sp"
In-Reply-To: <4570BBFE.1050303@u.washington.edu>
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an outdated version of R installed to cross-check.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.
>
>
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