[R] problems with FEAR

[Uwe Ligges]

On 23.01.2012 19:43, Ben Bolker wrote:
> Uwe Ligges<ligges<at>  statistik.tu-dortmund.de>  writes:
>
>>
>>
>> On 23.01.2012 15:12, Gilda Mazzarelli wrote:
>>> Hi all!
>>> I'va tried to install the routine FEAR in R, to compute DEA estimates for
>>> an academic work.
>>> I've downloaded and installed R (the last version 2.14.1) from
>>> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN, and then I've downloaded FEAR, I've saved
>>> it on the desktop, and following the instruction I've installed it on R
>>> (from "Install package(S) from local zip files..).
>>> After this, my R console window within R GUI appears as follow:
>>>
>>>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
>>> package ‘FEAR’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>>>> library(FEAR)
>>> Errore: package ‘FEAR’ is not installed for 'arch=i386'
>>   >
>>
>> Sounds like this package was not built for R for Windows or for an
>> ancient version of it. Since I FEAR we do not have access to your FEAR,
>> we can only guess....
>>
>> Uwe Ligges
>
>    Couldn't resist, could you ?

Not at all.

>    googling "FEAR DEA R" gives this:
>
> http://www.clemson.edu/economics/faculty/wilson/Software/FEAR/fear.html

I found that FEAR, but how could I be sure this was the one cited by the 
OP? Anyway, I explained the nonsense of nonexisting sources in another 
message already,

Uwe



>    You have to accept a click-through academic-use-only, no-redistribution,
> no-reverse-engineering, no-developing-copies license: "[you may not] use
> the software to develop copycat or functionally equivalent technology or
> derivative technologies based on the methods employed in the software" ...
>
>    I would contact the package maintainer about this problem, since by imposing
> these kinds of licensing restrictions he has probably moved outside
> the area of interest of most active R developers/helpers ...
>
>>
>>>
>>> I've tried more times, with different versions of R (2.11 and 2.12) but the
>>> error is always the same!
>>> What's wrong? Where is my mistake??=
>
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