From: Randall R Schulz Sundar, On Friday 23 September 2005 06:48, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hadley, ... Perhaps I'm dense, but I cannot find the software at the URL you mention. There are links to a paper and a PDF slide presentation, but no R package. There is also a dangling link (<http://r-project.org/>) in the first sentence.
Hi, Randall,
The first section of the webpage says:
<quote>
How to install
install.packages("reshape")
</quote>
Yes, of course I saw that.
Try the latter call at the R prompt.
Huh? All the other packages I've installed, and there have been several, I've downloaded from CRAN and used: % R CMD INSTALL packageName.tar.gz How am I to do that when I don't have the package. Where is going to come from?
If you do not know about the R function that is shown to you in response to your question, wouldn't it help to check out its help page on your own first? By default install.packages() does the download _and_ the rest for you automagically so you don't need to do that in steps outside of R.
But now I see that there is a "reshape" package in CRAN. I figured (yes, assumed) that since no mention of CRAN was made at the author's Web page that this release was not distributed there.
There's a short lag between package upload and its showing up on CRAN, and possibly longer lag for that to show up on various mirror sites. If and when I announcement, I'd wait til I see it show up at least on the master site before posting, or ask the users to check for availability. Andy
HTH, --sundar
Randall Schulz
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