[R] There is no package gregmisc (was why package gregmisc did not work)

[Xiyan Lon]

Thank to Dimitris and Prof. Brian Ripley.
Now I understand why I did not find package gregmisc
in my library directory.
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/packages/04/0056.html

It is announce a few week ago... smile.

Best wishess,
xiyanlon

--- Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> As it says very clearly:
> 
>    There is no package called 'gregmisc'
>                ^^^^^^^
> 
> There is a _bundle_ called 'gregmisc', containing
> packages gtools, gdata, 
> gmodels and gplots.  There used to be a package
> called `gregmisc', but 
> there is no more.
> 
> See
>
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/gregmisc.html
> 
> 
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Xiyan Lon wrote:
> 
> > Dear useR
> > 
> > I want to know why package gregmisc did not work
> very
> > well. I did not find this package in my library
> > directory.
> > 
> > > local({a <- CRAN.packages()
> > + install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE),
> > .libPaths()[1], available=a, dependencies=TRUE)})
> > trying URL
> >
>
`http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/PACKAGES'
> > Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1'
> length
> > 21630 bytes
> > opened URL
> > downloaded 21Kb
> > 
> > trying URL
> >
>
`http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/gregmisc_2.0.0.zip'
> > Content type `application/zip' length 687958 bytes
> > opened URL
> > downloaded 671Kb
> > 
> > bundle 'gregmisc' successfully unpacked and MD5
> sums
> > checked
> > 
> > Delete downloaded files (y/N)? y
> > 
> > updating HTML package descriptions
> > > library(gregmisc)
> > Error in library(gregmisc) : There is no package
> > called 'gregmisc'
> 
> -- 
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