CRAN packages

5 messages · Suzette Blanchard, Peter Dalgaard, Sundar Dorai-Raj +2 more

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Suzette Blanchard

Mon, Oct 25, 2004 8:16 AM #

I am not able to download packages ("xtable") from CRAN
not even just a .zip file,   I get that the page can not be
found.  Please could you help?
	Suzette



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Suzette Blanchard, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Frontier Science

Mon, Oct 25, 2004 8:26 AM #

Suzette Blanchard <suzette at sdac.harvard.edu> writes:

Which CRAN mirror? There was a messup over the weekend where a router
in Dortmund went down and the mirroring software misbehaved, deleting
all the Windows packages from CRAN. However, CRAN master
(cran.r-project.org) is back to normal now, and its mirrors should
follow in a day or two.

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Sundar Dorai-Raj

Mon, Oct 25, 2004 8:30 AM #

Suzette Blanchard wrote:

Hi Suzette,
   Please supply more information such as how you are downloading the 
package, what operating system you are using, and which version of R you 
have installed (or in general, read the posting guide). The easiest way 
to install a package is within R using ?install.packages. For example,

install.packages("xtable")

works perfectly fine for me in R-2.0.0 patched on Win2K.

--sundar

Dimitris Rizopoulos

Mon, Oct 25, 2004 8:35 AM #

Hi Suzette,

did you try several CRAN mirrors, for instance I'm able to download it 
from a UK mirror:

http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/src/contrib/Descriptions/xtable.html

I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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Brian Ripley

Mon, Oct 25, 2004 8:41 AM #

Which mirror of CRAN?  I presume this is for Windows, since you mention 
.zip.

There was a problem over the w/end, now restored on the main site.

	http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/xtable_1.2-4.zip

is there.  Try flushing any web cache if you can't see it.

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Suzette Blanchard wrote:

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