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5 messages · Lara R. Appleby 04, David Winsemius, Frank E Harrell Jr +1 more

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I am using the "contrast" package (available from CRAN) which in turn depends  
on the "Design" package (no longer in CRAN). I downloaded the Design package from  
a web archive. How do I load this into R?
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On Nov 21, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Lara R. Appleby 04 wrote:

            
I see that you are right. It does show up in the binary packages when  
I use the GUI installer but I suspect that is because I had it before.
From:
Documentation for package ?contrast? version 0.14
DESCRIPTION file.
Depends: R (>= 2.2.1), Design
Suggests: lattice, nlme, Hmisc, geepack, MASS, sandwich Description:  
Contrast methods, in the style of the Design package, for fit objects  
produced by the lm, glm, gls, and geese functions.
I was surprised to see that my older installed version of Design for R  
2.13.1 seemed to survive the update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) process  
I subjected my library to. And loading 'package:contrast' does load  
Design. (Which I then needed to detach since I use 'rms' and Design  
unsurprisingly masked most of that package)

If you had a prior copy of Design, you might first  try to copy it  
directly into your 2.14 library folder and then run  
update.packages("Design", checkBuilt=TRUE)

If that is not an option, the Archive link at the bottom of the  
contributed packages page should have the most recent version ....  
from 2009.

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/Design/Design_2.3-0.tar.gz

  You will need to use an Xcode-equipped version of MacOS to compile  
that source package, since it does have binaries.
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I would rather see the most effort put into getting the maintainer of 
contrast to update.  I've been warning about rms for a year and a half.

Frank
On 11/21/2011 05:35 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

  
    
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I'm working on it and will do more once I'm over the flu.=[

Max
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Frank Harrell <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:

  
    
2 days later
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A new version of contrast was sent to crane today that works with rms.

Max
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Max Kuhn <mxkuhn at gmail.com> wrote: