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Where to find old R packages?

3 messages · francogrex, Marc Schwartz, Brian Ripley

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francogrex
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What happens to old R packages? Is there a place where they are stored like
an archive? I'm looking for a package called ScanoR that doesn't exist
anymore on CRAN, the author doesn't exist anymore... I had made copies of
all packages (fearing that some might be "taken off the air" but
unfortuantely the ScanoR package was removed before I started making copies
in 2007). Any help appreciated. Thanks.
Marc Schwartz
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on 01/02/2009 08:38 AM francogrex wrote:
At the bottom of the package listing on your favorite CRAN mirror, under
"Related Directories", there are links for Archived and Orphaned packages.

However, it would appear that this package is not listed there.

A quick Google search reveals that the 2006 version of the manual is
available here:

  www.agric.wa.gov.au/aboutus/AS/ScanoRManual.pdf

and via a manual check, a Windows binary is here:

  http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/aboutus/AS/ScanoR.zip

However, I could not locate a tar file as the package source.

The author, Mario D'Antuono does have contact information here:

  http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/aboutus/as/biometrics_index.htm#mario

so you may wish to contact him directly.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz
Brian Ripley
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You mean like the 'Archive' on CRAN?  It is linked from the main packages 
page, at the bottom.

However, I've not heard of that package on CRAN, and it is not in the 
Windows binary list from 2004 for R 1.7.x.

I don't think it ever was on CRAN.  Try www.agric.wa.gov.au, which is 
where Google seems to point you.
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, francogrex wrote: