problem installing MCMCpack
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Ben Bolker wrote:
J. Henrikson wrote:
I'm completely new to R and am trying to install an add-on package for one of our faculty members. I've had no problems with most of them, but am completely stuck trying to figure out why MCMCpack won't install.. any help is VERY much appreciated!!! here's what I get when I try to install the package: [snip]
No very specific ideas, but: * try updating R to 2.6.0? (May not be the problem, but easy to do unless the faculty member is doing mission-critical work that depends on 2.5.1.)
And in any case many (most) of the helpers here will have updated and no longer have 2.5.1 installed.
* contact the package authors? (Author: Andrew D. Martin
<admartin at wustl.edu>, Kevin M. Quinn
<kevin_quinn at harvard.edu>, Jong Hee Park
<jhp at uchicago.edu>
Maintainer: Andrew D. Martin <admartin at wustl.edu>)
* what platform, version of g++, etc.?
I believe the latter is the key, but the line numbers quoted do not seems refer to the latest version of MCMCpack, so you might need to upgrade that too. I suspect the version of g++ is too old to support the features used (but without the correct line nos it is hard to be sure).
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