[R] Installing the Matrix package

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Naxerova, Kamila wrote:

> Hi all,
> is the Matrix package no longer available for download via install.packages?

Not for your obsolete version of R.  The current version has

Depends: R (>= 2.5.1), stats, methods, utils, lattice

as you can see at

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/Matrix.html


I suggest you update your R (as did the posting guide), but if you don't 
want to do that you can look on the CRAN Archive at

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/M/

to find an older version you can install by 'R CMD INSTALL'.


> When I try to install it (from any mirror), I get the following error message:
>
> install.packages("Matrix",lib="/home/kn52/R-2.5.0/library")
>
> Warning message:
> package 'Matrix' is not available in
> install.packages("Matrix",lib="/home/kn52/R-2.5.0/library")
>
> Other packages work fine. Do I need a newer R version?
>
> Thanks,
> Kamila
>
> platform       i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch           i686
> os             linux-gnu
> system         i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major          2
> minor          5.0
> year           2007
> month          04
> day            23
> svn rev        41293
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23)
>
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