I just downloaded the windows version R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-05 r39134)
1. When I downloaded the packages, the following two were not found. > utils:::menuInstallPkgs() --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- dependency ''fCalendar'' is not available dependency ''SparseM'' is not available I am not sure which other packages depend on these. 2. Of the others, several didn't install cleanly package 'mlbench' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Program Files\R\R- 2.4.0alpha\library\file41bb5af1\mlbench' to 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\mlbench' package 'tseries' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\file305e124 \tseries' to 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\tseries' package 'DAAG' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Program Files\R\R- 2.4.0alpha\library\file491c440d\DAAG' to 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\DAAG' package 'acepack' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Program Files\R\R- 2.4.0alpha\library\file767d7a5a\acepack' to 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\acepack' package 'rcom' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Program Files\R\R- 2.4.0alpha\library\file58784b40\rcom' to 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\rcom' I reinstalled all five from the local zip files that were downloaded as part of the above installation, and four worked and one didn't. I needed to reinstall mlbench a third time and this time it worked. This type of problem frequently happens when I download a new version of R. 3. rgl is still not working in Windows package 'rgl' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > library(rgl) Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : unable to load shared library 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-24~1.0AL/library/rgl/libs/rgl.dll': LoadLibrary failure: The specified procedure could not be found. Error: package/namespace load failed for 'rgl' > Therefore the Rcmdr 3-d graphics isn't working. Rich ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel