[R] no package 'Matrix' at the repositories

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11/11/2005 9:13 AM, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> If you are installing from Windows, the current version of Matrix apparently
> doesn't build automatically on Windows.  See:
> 
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.3/check/Matrix-check.log
> 
> (That's for R-devel.  There're similar problems on R-2.2.0.)
> 
> I'm sure Doug is aware of this...

Yes, he is.  Brian Ripley put together a copy that will build and 
install on Windows; I think it is just a matter of a short wait before 
those patches are incorporated in the main copy and it is sent to CRAN.

Matrix is a big package, and it tests lots of code in R.  I spent a day 
earlier this week tracking down a bug in R-devel that it revealed.  It 
was a tricky one, because it only generated a warning; when warnings 
were converted to errors, the problem went away.  Luke Tierney pointed 
out a nice trick that made it easier to find such a thing, and I've 
added it to my debugging web page here:

<http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/debuggingR/#tryCatch>

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Andy
> 
>> From: 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
> 
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