[Nmf-user] [ANN] NMF version 0.9 pre-release - install error

[Gordon Robertson]

Renaud,

I can view your CRAN page at http://web.cbio.uct.ac.za/~renaud/CRAN/, and can download the source file from the NMF page.

But I get an error when I try to install v0.9 as you suggested, using R 2.15.1 on OS X 10.7.5, from RStudio.

Can you help me understand what the problem is?

> install.packages('NMF', repos=c('http://web.cbio.uct.ac.za/~renaud/CRAN', getOption('repos')))
Installing package(s) into ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
Warning in install.packages :
  cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
Warning in install.packages :
  unable to access index for repository http://web.cbio.uct.ac.za/~renaud/CRAN/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.15
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘NMF’ is not available (for R version 2.15.1)

Thanks,

G


On 2012-11-10, at 3:21 AM, Renaud wrote:

Dear NMF enthusiasts,

following some recent changes/enforcement of CRAN policies the NMF package was archived on mid-September, while I was on leave. As a result it has not been accessible for standard installation ever since. I apologise for the inconvenience and hope it did not affect your research or interest in NMF methodologies.

I have been working hard on a new version, so that it could quickly make its way to CRAN, and bring along a set of improvements developed over the past year, such as a brand new and  improved annotated heatmap engine for visualizing NMF results.

The update is now ready and passes all the checks on my system, but for some reason fails on CRAN own machines, and some investigation about this dark magic is necessary until the package is finally back live on CRAN.

It is important that the package is immediately available in some way though, especially given the many enquiries I had about the package and its disappearance from R world. So I put a pre-release version on my personal CRAN-like repository, from which the package can be installed via the following command:

install.packages('NMF', repos=c('http://web.cbio.uct.ac.za/~renaud/CRAN', getOption('repos')))

I hope you will like this new version and welcome any feedback, bug report, discussion or suggestion, which could improve the package's quality and usability.
Note that there is a mailing list dedicated to this (nmf-user at lists.r-forge.r-project.org<mailto:nmf-user at lists.r-forge.r-project.org>) to which you can subscribe, if you have not already:

https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/mailman/listinfo/nmf-user

Last but not least, an eye-candy browsable version of the documentation pages is available online at:

http://nmf.r-forge.r-project.org<http://nmf.r-forge.r-project.org/>

I will let you know when the package is officially released on CRAN.

Bests,
Renaud

PS: you are receiving this email because you showed interest in the NMF package, in some way or another. Please send me an email if you do not want to receive any more emails about it.

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Renaud Gaujoux
Computational Biology - University of Cape Town
South Africa


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