[Rsiena-help] New version RSiena

[Maartenselfhout]

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
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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
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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



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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