[R] package installation fails only for "sp"

[Peter Dalgaard]

Don McKenzie wrote:
> I have escaped Splus for Windows (mostly) and have started using
> R (v 2.3.1 on i686 redhat).  Installing packages has been routine except
> for "sp" (classes and methods for spatial data).  I get the following error
> message
>
>  > install.packages("sp")
> Warning in download.packages(unique(pkgs),destdir=tmpd,available=available,:
>             no package 'sp'  at the repositories
>  
> Clearly I am missing something (probably obvious), but can someone 
> enlighten me
> as to why the behavior of this package installation is different from 
> others?  sp is
> listed under "Contributed packages" at the R-project URL.  Thank you
> for your time.
>
>   
Try looking at the Depends: field....