[R] package MCMCpack

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 04/12/2019 8:47 a.m., Prophet, William wrote:
> I am running R on my work computer with the following parameters:
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.5.3 (2019-03-11)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)
> 
> 
> I am trying to install the "MCMCpack" library. In the process however, I receive the message:
> 
>> install.packages("MCMCpack")
> 
> Warning in install.packages :
> 
>    package 'MCMCpack' is not available (for R version 3.5.3)
> 
> 
> I have tried to install earlier versions of the "MCMCpack" library which I obtained from the following website:
> https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/MCMCpack/
> 
> using the following code:
> packageurl <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/MCMCpack/MCMCpack_1.2-4.tar.gz"
> install.packages(packageurl, type="source")

That's not the way to install a tarball.  You should use

install.packages(packageurl, type="source", repos=NULL)

However, you may still have problems:  when I tried that, the install 
failed because of C++ errors.  I don't know if configure options (e.g. 
specifying a particular version of C++) would have fixed the problems.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> but I get an identical error message:
> 
>> packageurl <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/MCMCpack/MCMCpack_1.2-4.tar.gz"
> 
>> install.packages(packageurl, type="source")
> 
> Warning in install.packages :
> 
>    package 'https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/MCMCpack/MCMCpack_1.2-4.tar.gz' is not available (for R version 3.5.3)
> 
> 
> 
> I realize that updating my R version to 3.6.1 could possibly solve the problem, but this would be impractical for me because my version needs to be consistent with others on my team. In any case, the fact that I am getting errors (detailed above) with *every* version of "MCMCpack" seems odd.
> 
> Do you have any suggestions for how I can install a working version of "MCMCpack" for my version of R?
> 
> Thank you,
> Bill
> 
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