[R] car package dependencies

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Martin Wegmann <baliola at riseup.net> writes:

> Hello, 
> 
> >
> > Which system are we talking about?? Linux, obviously, but which
> > distribution packages things up like that?
> 
> I am using Suse 8.1, R 1.7.0 (->grid & lattice included)
> 
> > I would suspect that you have some
> > sort of version skew and that your car/grid/lattice RPMs relate to an
> > older version of R (or the person who built the RPMs failed to notice
> > the dependency changes).
> 
> can I change the 'car' dependencies/relation to the older R version myself 
> without any deep programming knowledge?
> 
> Or is there any other packages with a box cox transformation or a similar 
> normalization transformation ?

You could try installing the RPM ignoring dependencies (--force or
--nodeps or thereabouts) or maybe more obviously: install from the
source package with install.packages() (over the net) or  R CMD
INSTALL car_x.y-z.tar.gz.

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