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user2979630
user2979630

Reputation: 131

RODBC NOT available for 2.15.2

I am using R version of 2.15.2 and tried installing RODBC package. However, I got a warning message that "RODBC is not available for 2.15.2" and it's builded based on 2.15.3. I believed I used to use 2.15.2 and never got this problem. Any body got same problems and how did you solve it? I don't want to upgrade to higher version

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1964

Answers (1)

Ricardo Saporta
Ricardo Saporta

Reputation: 55350

Short answer: Download the .tar.gz file then call install.packages on the local file

Longer answer:

  1. Ask google to point you to the archive for the source files for the package of interest. If the package is hosted on CRAN, you will likely find yourself here: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/RODBC/

  2. Search through the news items to see which is the latest available package version for your version of R. (In this case, 1.3.7)

  3. In R: 

    # Where you will save the file, locally        
localFile <- "~/RODBC.tar.gz"  #or wherever appropriate
remoteFile <- "http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/RODBC/RODBC_1.3-7.tar.gz"

# download the file
download.file(remoteFile, localFile)

# Install from local source
install.packages(localFile, repos=NULL, type="source")

# optionally delete the downloaded file
unlink(localFile)

Upvotes: 4

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