[R] Package 'compositions' and R-3.1.0

[David Winsemius]

On May 13, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:

> On 14/05/14 09:21, Rich Shepard wrote:
>>   I just tried to install 'compositions'. It's apparently not yet
>> available
>> for R-3.1.0. How can I learn when it might be available?
> 
> The compositions package has apparently been archived:
> 
>> Package ‘compositions’ was removed from the CRAN repository.
>> 
>> Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive.
>> 
>> Archived on 2014-05-01 as undefined-behaviour errors were not
>> corrected (and previously archived on 2014-03-07).
> 
> 
> You could try retrieving the package from the archive and fixing it yourself.  Good luck!

There was just a posting on R-devel today that suggested compiling from source has a good chance to succeed without even fixes.

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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA