[R] RDCOMClient under R2.0.0 - "not a valid package"

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Try <duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu>.

I am afraid you do need to install the package from the sources for use 
under a later version of R than that used for www.omegahat.org.

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Matthew Dowle wrote:

> Both 'omega-devel at omegahat.org' and 'duncan at research.bell-labs.com' appear
> to be bouncing with 'user unknown' so trying r-help ....
> [ Btw, "mailing lists" link on omega page is returning "mailman CGI error".
> ]

Yes, it has been reported a few times.

> > > require("RDCOMClient")
> > Loading required package: RDCOMClient 
> > Error in library(package, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE,
> > warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts,  : 
> >         'RDCOMClient' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0?
> > > version
> >          _              
> > platform i386-pc-mingw32
> > arch     i386           
> > os       mingw32        
> > system   i386, mingw32  
> > status   beta           
> > major    2              
> > minor    0.0            
> > year     2004           
> > month    09             
> > day      28             
> > language R              

It might be a good idea to use the final released version of 2.0.0.

> > I have re-installed RDCOMClient_0.8-1.zip under R2.0.0 but still getting
> > the error above.   Any ideas/suggestions much appreciated.  The file
> > ../library/RDCOMClient/Meta/package.rds appears to be missing?

And several other files will also be.

If you need to use the binaries on www.omegahat.org, you need to use R < 
2.0.0, and I keep 1.9.1 installed for such uses (Bioconductor, too).

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