[FLR-list] Installation of FLCore 2.4

[Mark Payne]

Hi guys,

Congratulations on the recent progress, and particularly the release of the Duke of Pawns (dare I ask what the story is behind that one?). I'm very pleased to be able to step into the future and finally get rid of that old version of R 2.8.1 that I have kicking around to run the old assessments.

Unfortunately, I seem to have hit a snag with installing the release directly from the repository ie using:

> install.packages("FLCore", repos="http://flr-project.org/R")

This worked fine on my Windows version of R, which is running R 2.13.1.

However, when I try exactly the same command on my Madriva Linux workstation, which is running R 2.13.0, I get the following error:

> install.packages("FLCore", repos="http://flr-project.org/R")
Installing package(s) into ‘/home/mpayne/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'http://flr-project.org/R/src/contrib/FLCore_2.4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2771729 bytes (2.6 Mb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 2.6 Mb

ERROR: this R is version 2.13.0, package 'FLCore' requires R >= 2.13.2
* removing ‘/home/mpayne/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/FLCore’

The downloaded packages are in
        ‘/home/mpayne/tmp/Rtmpqz7jMW/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("FLCore", repos = "http://flr-project.org/R") :
  installation of package 'FLCore' had non-zero exit status


Doing the install from my working copy of the SVN repository using R CMD INSTALL FLCore works fine - It appears to me that the Linux box is taking the development version, rather than the release. Any ideas why?

Mark