[R] NADA Package install disappearance

[rwillims]

I have been using the NADA package to do some statistical analysis, however I
have just found that the package is no longer available for install. I've
downloaded an older version ( NADA_1.5-4.tar.gz ) and tried to use
install.packages to install it in two versions of R ( 3.0.0 and 2.15.1) and
I have gotten the same error message for both: "package
‘path/NADA_1.5-4.tar.gz’ is not available (for R version 2.15.1)".

I'm hoping that someone can help shed some light on the situation. I
suspect that the version of the NADA package is just too dated for my
version of R, but I'm not sure how to remedy this.

Thank you for any help,
Rachel

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[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 22 May 2013, rwillims wrote:

> I have been using the NADA package to do some statistical analysis,
> however I have just found that the package is no longer available for
> install. I've downloaded an older version ( NADA_1.5-4.tar.gz ) and tried
> to use install.packages to install it in two versions of R ( 3.0.0 and
> 2.15.1) and I have gotten the same error message for both: "package
> ‘path/NADA_1.5-4.tar.gz’ is not available (for R version 2.15.1)".

Rachel,

I'm running R-3.0.0 and had no problems re-installing NADA from the
osuosl.org ftp server. I've no idea what version of NADA is installed.

Have you tried another repository?

Rich

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[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 22/05/2013 21:06, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 22 May 2013, rwillims wrote:
>
>> I have been using the NADA package to do some statistical analysis,
>> however I have just found that the package is no longer available for
>> install. I've downloaded an older version ( NADA_1.5-4.tar.gz ) and
>> tried
>> to use install.packages to install it in two versions of R ( 3.0.0 and
>> 2.15.1) and I have gotten the same error message for both: "package
>> ‘path/NADA_1.5-4.tar.gz’ is not available (for R version 2.15.1)".
>
> Rachel,
>
> I'm running R-3.0.0 and had no problems re-installing NADA from the
> osuosl.org ftp server. I've no idea what version of NADA is installed.
>
> Have you tried another repository?
>
> Rich
>

A good idea for things like this is to check the CRAN package web page:
http://cran.r-project.org/package=NADA

That shows it is archived, and last updated over a year ago.

You should be able to download the source file, and

install.packages('NADA_1.5-4.tar.gz', repos=NULL)

worked for me in 3.0.1.

The package was archived because it was unmaintained and uses the
long-obsolete \synopsis syntax that is being removed.

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