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Michael On Jul 11, 2012, at 6:26 PM, Hui Du <hui...@dataventures.com> wrote: > Thanks, all. I will upgrade my R in linux but I suspect the root cause is > some set up problem although I don't know how to trace it yet. I am not that > familiar with R in Linux. If somebody could give me a clue how to diagnose > this kind of problem, that will be great. > > > > HXD > -----Original Message----- > From: R. Michael Weylandt [mailto:michael.weyla...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 4:04 PM > To: Hui Du > Cc: Jorge I Velez; R-help > Subject: Re: [R] Variance Inflation factor > > You're rather out of date with your version of R -- if you want to use > the CRAN binaries provided by install.packages(), you usually have to > be at most one minor rev behind. > > Try install.packages("car", type = "source") > > But even better -- update to a poppin-fresh R 2.15.1: you get > parallelization, a byte-code-compiler, and all sorts of other goodies. > > Best, > Michael > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Hui Du <hui...@dataventures.com> wrote: >> Thank you for your consideration. >> >> >>> sessionInfo() >> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) >> i686-pc-linux-gnu >> >> locale: >> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C >> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 >> [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 >> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C >> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >> HXD >> >> From: Jorge I Velez [mailto:jorgeivanve...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 3:31 PM >> To: Hui Du >> Cc: R-help >> Subject: Re: [R] Variance Inflation factor >> >> Could you please include your sessionInfo() ? >> >> Thank you, >> Jorge.- >> >> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Hui Du >> <hui...@dataventures.com<mailto:hui...@dataventures.com>> wrote: >> Thanks. But in UNIX side, I got the same error >> >> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) : >> package ‘car’ is not available >> >> HXD >> >> From: Jorge I Velez >> [mailto:jorgeivanve...@gmail.com<mailto:jorgeivanve...@gmail.com>] >> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 3:19 PM >> To: Hui Du >> Cc: R-help >> Subject: Re: [R] Variance Inflation factor >> >> See the examples at >> >> # install.pacages('car') >> require(car) >> ?vif >> >> HTH, >> Jorge.- >> >> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Hui Du <> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> >> I need to calculate VIF (variance inflation factor) for my linear regression >> model. I found there was a function named vif in 'HH' package. I have two >> questions: >> >> >> 1) I was able to install that package in my R under windows. But while >> trying to install that package in UNIX, I got error: >> >> Package HH is not available. >> >> Does somebody know why? >> >> >> 2) Does somebody know the other way to calculate vif in R? >> >> >> Many thanks. >> HXD >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org<mailto: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. >> ______________________________________________ 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.
