Yeah, I tried building the package and got essentially the same warnings and decided that further assistance required someone above my pay grade. :-)
Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of David Winsemius > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 4:43 PM > To: Uwe Ligges > Cc: r-help@r-project.org help > Subject: Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from > CRAN? > > > On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > > > On 20.08.2013 01:06, Daniel Nordlund wrote: > >> The file you had, assist_3.1.2.tar.gz, was not a Windows binary zip > file. It was a source tarball. That kind of file needs to be built and > installed differently. In order to do that, you need to have all the > tools necessary for building packages. This package does not have just > pure R code in it, but it has code that needs compiling. You need to > determine why the package was removed from CRAN. It may no longer work > with current versions of R. You probably need to contact the package > maintainer to resolve this problem. Sorry I can't provide more help. > > > > > > .... and possible reasons for package archivals on CRAN are unresponsive > maintainers of packages that do not pass the checks without problems any > more. > > I have a copy of 'assist' installed (for some mysterious reason my GUI > package installer was able to find a binary copy for R 3.0.1 on my regular > UC Berkeley CRAN repos): > > > maintainer("assist") > [1] "Chunlei Ke <chunlei...@yahoo.com>" > > From the description file: > > Package: assist > Version: 3.1.2 > Title: A Suite of S-Plus Functions Implementing Smoothing Splines > > Depends: R (>= 1.7.0), nlme > > URL: http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/faculty/yuedong/software.html > Packaged: 2013-03-12 15:29:39 UTC; ripley > Repository: CRAN > Date/Publication: 2013-03-12 16:30:20 > NeedsCompilation: yes > Built: R 3.0.0; x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0; 2013-03-16 08:53:21 UTC; unix > Archs: assist.so.dSYM > > > I also installed from source and here are the warning messages: > > > gfortran-4.2 -arch x86_64 -fPIC -g -O2 -c rkpk1.f -o rkpk1.o > rkpk1.f:1972.72: > > 10 ASSIGN 30 TO NEXT > 1 > Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1) > rkpk1.f:1977.19: > > 20 GO TO NEXT,(30, 50, 70, 110) > 1 > Warning: Obsolete: Assigned GOTO statement at (1) > rkpk1.f:1979.72: > > ASSIGN 50 TO NEXT > 1 > Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1) > rkpk1.f:1988.72: > > ASSIGN 70 TO NEXT > 1 > Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1) > rkpk1.f:1994.72: > > ASSIGN 110 TO NEXT > 1 > Warning: Obsolete: ASSIGN statement at (1) > > ------------------------- > Good luck; > > David. > > > > > > Best, > > Uwe Ligges > > > > > >> > >> > >> Dan > >> > >> > >> > >> Daniel Nordlund > >> > >> Bothell, WA USA > >> > >> > >> > >> _____ > >> > >> From: Shang Zuofeng [mailto:zuofengsh...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 2:16 PM > >> To: Daniel Nordlund > >> Cc: r-help@r-project.org > >> Subject: Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from > CRAN? > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks, Dan! > >> > >> The package is "assist" which can be downloaded from the following > link: > >> > >> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/assist/ > >> > >> The one I chose was assist_3.1.2.tar.gz > >> > >> I have changed this file to .zip and installed it from local directory > through R. However, this method is still not working. > >> > >> Thanks a lot for your kind help! > >> > >> Best regards, > >> > >> Zuofeng > >> > >> 2013/8/19 Daniel Nordlund <djnordl...@frontier.com> > >> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] > >>> On Behalf Of Shang Zuofeng > >>> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 1:26 PM > >>> To: r-help@r-project.org > >>> Subject: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from > CRAN? > >>> > >>> Dear All, > >>> > >>> My project requires the use of a specific R package. However, this R > >>> package has been removed from CRAN. But its older version can be > found. > >>> Unfortunately, the older version cannot be used. The thing is, after I > >>> downloaded the older version and unzip it into the library folder of > R, > >>> and I input library("package name"), it says that the package "is not > a > >>> valid installed package". > >>> > >>> After an intensive search, I found a possible solution: to rebuild > this R > >>> package so that it may work properly. I have no idea how to make this > >>> achieved because of my little experience on rebuilding an R package. > >>> > >>> I highly appreciate your help. > >>> > >>> Sincere thanks. > >>> Zuofeng > >>> > >> > >> Well, you haven't told us enough to let us help you. Given that you > have a zip file, I will assume for the moment that you are using some > variant of MS Windows. I don't think you want to unzip that file > directly. I think you want open R, go to the packages menu and choose > install package from local zip file. Whether that will work depends on > your version of R, your OS, the requirements of the package, why it was > removed from CRAN, and a host of other things. If you want more detailed > help, you need to provide the "at a minimum" info requested in the posting > guide. It would also help if you told us what package you are trying to > install. > >> > >> Dan > >> > >> Daniel Nordlund > >> Bothell, WA USA > >> > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
