[R] no package 'Matrix' at the repositories

[Sean Davis]

On 11/11/05 8:38 AM, "Spencer Graves" <spencer.graves at pdf.com> wrote:

>  Yesterday, I installed R2.2.0 for Windows [Version 2.2.0 (2005-10-06
> r35749)].  Unfortunately, 'install.packages("Matrix")' produced the
> following message:
> 
> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available =
> available,  :
>         no package 'Matrix' at the repositories
> 
>  I installed lme4, maps, mapproj, CircStats, scatterplot3d, gregmisc,
> Hmisc without problems.  To confirm, 'library(lme4)' produced the
> following error:
> 
> Error: package 'Matrix' required by 'lme4' could not be found
> 
>  What do you suggest?
>  Spencer Graves
> p.s.  I get the same result using several different (US) mirrors.

I found it here:

http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/src/contrib/Matrix_0.99-1.tar.gz

and here:

http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/Matrix_0.99-1.tar.gz

at least.  These are the only two I checked.

Sean