[R] cannot install RSTAR, MSVAR, and MSVECM packages

[peter dalgaard]

On Jul 31, 2012, at 02:50 , Ario Ario wrote:

> Hi,
> Thank you. I've tried to find the substitute of such packages with google, but I couldn't find any. Could you please tell me how to find it? Sorry, I'm a beginner user of this software. 
> 

First explain what you want to do and where you got the idea to look for those packages. We are a bit lost at this end if we can't tell whether STAR is for "Smooth Transition AutoRegressive" or "Spike Train Analysis in R"...

-Peter D.

> Regards,
> Ario
> 
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 30.07.2012 11:42, peter dalgaard wrote:
> 
> On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:08 , Ario Ario wrote:
> 
> *Hi all,
> I got problems installing RSTAR, MSVAR, and MSVECM packages. *
> 
> No such thing exists on CRAN (nor its Archive section), so little wonder.
> 
> Similarly named packages exist for the Ox matrix language, though. Such packages, however, do not readily convert themselves for use with R.
> 
> 
> 
> ... or they have different names or have been removed from CRAN, see e.g.:
> 
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/STAR/index.html
> 
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MSVAR/index.html
> 
> 
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
> 

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