Use a version from the archives available on the link you quoted. If you really want the current version, you could try to change the dependency before installation but I imagine the maintainer put it there for good reasons.
Of course, the real answer is to update R. Michael PS - If I remember right, Dirk makes packages available for Debian Linux distributions so your suggestion that Linux builds are necessarily from source is not universally true On Jan 12, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Michael <comtech....@gmail.com> 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! > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
