I am baffled by this as well. I'm having the same issue. Using suse linux,
with 64 bit R2.8.1.
Thanks,
james
Zege, Andrew wrote:
>
> I am unable to install package lme4, after several attempts to do so using
> various repository URLs.
> Just to make sure everything works fine with proxy, connection, etc, I
> installed ggplot2 and it worked fine.
>
> I am using command
>
> install.packages("lme4", lib="/myRlibs"),
>
> optionally using contrib argument with different URLs.
>
> Error message the I get is
>
> Warning message;
> In install.packages("lme4", lib="/myRlibs")
> package 'lme4' is not available
>
>
> Some other details, not sure how relevant are:
>
> getOption("repos") returns "http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN";
>
> I tried setting contrib to various other URL, such as
> "http://cran.mtu.edu/src/contrib"; or Berkeley URL, but with no success.
> Actually, when I did available.packages() on this repos, I didn't see lme4
> in the package indices.
> My machine has x86_64bit RedHat Linux.
>
> Would appreciate any tips or directions,
>
> Thanks
> Andre
>
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