trouble downloading aster 0.8-30

[Marcus Warwell]

Good day, I am attempting to download aster package 0.8-30 using the R gui for Apple and am getting the following error message.

                     trying URL 'http://cran.cs.wwu.edu/src/contrib/aster_0.8-30.tar.gz'
                     Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1331999 bytes (1.3 Mb)
                     opened URL
                     ==================================================
                     downloaded 1.3 Mb


                    The downloaded source packages are in
                        ‘/private/var/folders/w9/g7_3nq356vlbttkxfn67b3wc0000gn/T/RtmpMuSvrM/downloaded_packages’
                    ERROR: dependency ‘trust’ is not available for package ‘aster’
                    * removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/aster’

Can you help me with a solution?

[geyer]

That is bizarre.  A CRAN problem?  What do you mean "download"?

If you do

    install.packages("aster")

from the R command line, it should install both the trust package and that aster package (any invocation of install.packages installs all the dependencies for a package before installing the package).  I just tried it on my laptop and it works for install.packages("aster") but I don't have a mac to try it on.  You could also try

    install.packages("trust")
    install.packages("aster")

in that order to make sure you have the dependency.