Hi,

I'm trying to install Chipster (for microarray analysis: http://chipster.csc.fi/), which expressly relies on R 2.6.1 (for now).

So I'd like to install automatically (i.e. using a 'install.packages' like function) the last version of a package compatible with the running R version. For example, when I'm running R-2.6.1 and want to install package 'lme4' I get the following warning:

In install.packages("lme4", repos = contrib.url("http://cran.r-project.org";)) :
package ‘lme4’ is not available

Also:
available.packages(contriburl = contrib.url("http://cran.r-project.org";)) does not return any line for package lme4. This is because the latest version of package lme4 on CRAN depends on R 2.9.0. However there is older versions stored on CRAN that are compatible with R version 2.6.1 (in subdirectory contrib/Archive/lme4).

Is there a script/package out there that does the trick, retrieving the list of the older versions and download the latest version compatible with R 2.6.1?

Thanks

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