[Rd] Is rcompgen still recommended?

[Peter Dalgaard]

James MacDonald wrote:
> I just built R-devel from source on OS X (Tiger), using the subversion 
> sources. Running ./tools/rsync-recommended didn't download rcompgen. I 
> checked
>
> http://cran.r-project/src/contrib/2.7.0/Recommended
>
> and indeed, this package is not there. If I try to install using 
> install.packages I get
>
>  > install.packages("rcompgen", type="source")
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> trying URL 'http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/contrib/rcompgen_0.1-17.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 29240 bytes (28 Kb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 28 Kb
>
> * Installing *source* package 'rcompgen' ...
> Error: Invalid DESCRIPTION file
>
> Invalid Priority field.
> Packages with priorities 'base' or 'recommended' or 'defunct-base' must
> already be known to R.
>
> See the information on DESCRIPTION files in section 'Creating R
> packages' of the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.
> Execution halted
> ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed
> ** Removing '/Users/jmacdon/R-devel/library/rcompgen'
>
> The downloaded packages are in
> 	/private/tmp/Rtmpb0Refs/downloaded_packages
> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("rcompgen", type = "source") :
>    installation of package 'rcompgen' had non-zero exit status
>
>
> I assume I am missing something obvious, but don't know what it is. Any 
> pointers?
>   
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