[Rsiena-help] New version RSiena

[Ruth M. Ripley]

Dear Maarten,

I am not clear wehether you can get any r-forge packages, but you will not 
get the latest ones of RSiena unless you have R 2-10.0 or 2.10.1 
installed. You need to get this from CRAN. It is probably a good idea, but 
not essential, to uninstaall the previous version first. There are 
instructions in the R for Mac FAQ on how to do it. Then you need to 
reinstall RSiena: I suggest you install it from CRAN first to get xtable 
automatically and then use the 'Other repository' option pointed at 
http://R-Forge.R-project.org to get the later one.

Regards,

Ruth


On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Maartenselfhout wrote:

> Dear Ruth,
>
> I'm currently on version 1.0.9, so my main question is how to get to 2.10.1? I do not get it through the update within R...
>
> Dr. Maarten van Zalk-Selfhout
> Center for Developmental Research
> Örebro University
>
> On Mar 8, 2010, at 22:34, "Ruth M. Ripley" <ruth at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear Maarten,
>
> I think you were saying that you could not get hold of a newer version
> from CRAN, which would be true if you are still on R version 2.9.n. If you
> update this (uninstall R 2.9.n and install R 2.10.1) then you can update
> RSiena from CRAN. Once you have done this you could install an even later
> version direct from r-forge by supplying the address of the repository:
> "http://R-Forge.R-project.org" This is available on the menu in Windows,
> but not, it seems, on Macs. I will suggest that be added!
>
> Please confirm which versions of R and RSiena you are on!
>
> Regards,
>
> Ruth
> --
> Ruth M. Ripley,                         Email:ruth at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Dept. of Statistics,                    http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ruth/
> University of Oxford,                   Tel:   01865 282851
> 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK  Fax:   01865 272595
>
>
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Maartenselfhout wrote:
>
> Dear Ruth,
>
> I thought I had to upgrade it this way, but do you mean I have to update
> the program first (how do you do that?) and then use the tgz file toget
> the rforge version?
>
> Dr. Maarten van Zalk-Selfhout
> Center for Developmental Research
> Örebro University
>
> On Mar 8, 2010, at 15:48, "Ruth M. Ripley" <ruth at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear Maarten,
>
> Did you mean a tgz file?
>
> If so, I did the same with no problem. But I have only got R-2.10.1
> installed, which might be different from an older version.
>
> You can use the unpacked RSiena directory, with the option Local Package
> Directory.
>
> Is there a reason why you cannot upgrade your R?
>
> Regards,
>
> Ruth
> --
> Ruth M. Ripley,                         Email:ruth at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Dept. of Statistics,                    http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ruth/
> University of Oxford,                   Tel:   01865 282851
> 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK  Fax:   01865 272595
>
>
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, maarten selfhout wrote:
>
> Dear Ruth,
>
> while trying to update my current version of RSiena (1.0.5) by downloading the binary 'tar' (mac zip) -file, I get problems with the installation. I go to the package installation, and then select 'local binary', and select the tar file donwloaded from Rforge ("RSiena_1.0.10.tar"), I get the following error
>
> cannot open compressed file 'RSiena/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory'
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>
> If I unpack the tar file, I get a whole directory called RSiena; which file do 'I need to select from there to update?
>
> Thanks once again for your help!
>
> Maarten
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Ruth M. Ripley <ruth at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> To: maarten selfhout <maartenselfhout at yahoo.com>
> Cc: rsiena-help at r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at
> Sent: Mon, February 15, 2010 12:39:45 PM
> Subject: Re: New version RSiena
>
> Dear Maarten,
>
> R-forge only provides packages for the current version of R. You need to
> install R 2.10.1 in order to use this command. Alternatively, download the
> binary from the R-forge web page and install from the zip file. This is a
> menu option on Windows, so probably on Macs as well.
>
> Upgrading R is recommended, although if you do this I suggest you
> preinstall the package xtable, which is not on R-forge, before installing
> RSiena.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ruth
> --
> Ruth M. Ripley,                         Email:ruth at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Dept. of Statistics,                    http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ruth/
> University of Oxford,                   Tel:   01865 282851
> 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK  Fax:   01865 272595
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, maarten selfhout wrote:
>
> Dear Ruth,
>
> I was trying to upload the latest version of RSiena by typing
>
> install.packages("RSiena", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
>
> but I get the following error:
>
> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.9
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
> package 'RSiena' is not available
>
>
> Could you help me figure out what went wrong?
>
> Thanks again for your help!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Maarten Van Zalk
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