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Guenzet
Guenzet

Reputation: 35

installing an archived package

The package is available on this website. http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/rlandscape/

When I use:

install.packages("rlandscape", 
  repos = "http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/rlandscape/",         
  type="source")

I get the following error:

package 'rlandscape' is not available (for R version 3.1.2)

I have tried older versions too but no luck..

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1946

Answers (2)

Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker

Reputation: 226182

The devtools package has a function that can install archived versions. Try:

library("devtools")
install_version("rlandscape",version="1.0",
            repos="http://cran.r-project.org")

(You should be able to use repos=getOption("repos")["CRAN"] instead, but it looks like your repos option is slightly messed up, i.e. the URL is missing the http://.)

(The repos argument is necessary to work around what I think is a glitch in install_version, i.e. it assumes that repos is a length-1 character vector.)

This should, I think, also automatically install appropriate dependencies -- although it's a bit of a catch-22 if they are in the CRANextra repository for Windows, since that has to be suppressed in order to get install_version to work ...

It may also be the case that install_version automatically assumes that you want the package and all dependencies installed as source (not binary) installations, in which case you will need to have compilation tools installed. The rlandscape package doesn't actually have any compiled code included, but its dependencies do ...

Upvotes: 2

ahmohamed
ahmohamed

Reputation: 2970

This is an old (archived) package that is no longer supported. If you really need it, you can install it using R CMD INSTALL but you need also to install all its dependencies manually.

Installing your desired package gave me the following:

>R CMD INSTALL ~/Downloads/rlandscape_1.0.tar.gz 
* installing to library ‘/Users/mohamedahmed/Rlibs’
ERROR: dependencies ‘spatstat’, ‘deldir’, ‘gWidgets’, ‘gWidgetsRGtk2’ are not available for package ‘rlandscape’
* removing ‘/Users/mohamedahmed/Rlibs/rlandscape’

I am not sure all dependencies are still available on CRAN, but it seems to be challenging task.

Upvotes: 1

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