[R] NADA Package install disappearance

[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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