snowfall?
On 7 February 2013 at 14:49, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
| R-sig-hpc'ers: | | I just realized that I can no longer install snowfall and it appears to be | gone from CRAN ( | http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/snowfall/index.html)-- is this | project dead, or has it been wrapped into something else, or is it just | between versions? Thanks! | | > install.packages("snowfall") | Installing package(s) into 'D:/Users/jgrn/Documents/R/win-library/2.15' | (as 'lib' is unspecified) | Warning message: | package 'snowfall' is not available (for R version 2.15.2) Removal from CRAN is something that happens to packages which fail to build under R(-release) and the ever changing R-devel (aka R 3.0.0, due out in April). My CRANberries services monitors removals as well additions and updates to CRAN, so yes, I knew. The package is likely still available in the Archive/ section so you can download it from there and install that way. A little bird told that the snowfall author is planning to updated the package "time permitting". And there are of course the package parallel (in R base), snow, foreach, ... Dirk
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