You missed the "Old Sources" link under "Downloads:" on that page (which most CRAN packages have):
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/fields/ You can then download the appropriate tarball version and install the package locally. HTH, Marc Schwartz On Jan 12, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Michael wrote: > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fields/index.html > > As you can see, it clearly stated that "> 2.13"... > > I thought in Linux, we default to download and build from the source... > > using "install.packages()" ... > > How do I really build it for 2.12? > > > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:12 AM, R. Michael Weylandt < > michael.weyla...@gmail.com> <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I assume you mean it's not on CRAN. You'll have to build from source. The >> easiest way to do so is with the "type" argument to install.packages() >> >> Michael >> >> On Jan 12, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Michael <comtech....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am installing a package called "fields" but it's for R version > >> 2.13... >>> >>> I only have R 2.12 on Linux. >>> >>> How do I find the earlier version of "fields"? >>> >>> Thanks a lot! ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
