[Traminer-users] installing seqdist2 on a Windows server

[Reynolds, Jeremy E]

Dear TraMineR Users,

I am having some difficulty installing seqdist2 on a server that I use to run R.

Installing seqdist2 on my desktop computer is no problem. I am running R 3.3.1 with R Studio 0.99.903 on a windows machine and the command below works fine.

install.packages("seqdist2", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")

Today, however, when I tried to install seqdist2 for the copy of R that is on a Windows 2012 R2 Terminal Server, the results suggested that  the binary copy of seqdist2 at http://R-Forge.R-project.org is older than the source version (see code below).  I find this message surprising because it did not appear when I installed seqdist2 on my desktop.

> install.packages("seqdist2", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
Installing package into 'C:/Users/reyno113/Documents/R/win-library/3.1'
(as 'lib' is unspecified)

  There is a binary version available (and will be installed) but the source version is later:
         binary source
seqdist2    0.9  0.9-1

trying URL 'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.1/seqdist2_0.9.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 168620 bytes (164 KB)
opened URL
downloaded 164 KB

package 'seqdist2' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
        C:\Users\reyno113\AppData\Local\Temp\5\Rtmp8U9d4F\downloaded_packages

Eager to have the newer version of seqdist2, I tried to install from the source file (seqdist2_0.9-1.tar.gz).  Unfortunately, this failed because the version of R installed on the server is too old (see code below).


> install.packages("seqdist2_0.9-1.tar.gz", repos = "http://R-Forge.R-project.org", type="source")

Installing package into 'C:/Users/reyno113/Documents/R/win-library/3.1'

(as 'lib' is unspecified)

Warning in install.packages :

  package 'seqdist2_0.9-1.tar.gz' is not available (for R version 3.1.3)

I have asked my server administrators to update to a newer version of R, but I don't know how long that might take.  Is there a way to use seqdist2 with R version 3.1.3?  Perhaps using this older version of R is the explanation for both problems I encountered?

Any tips would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeremy

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