[R] issue -- Packages unavailable for R version 3.2.3

[peter dalgaard]

Hmm, well.... I probably wouldn't suggest that you roll 3 years worth of bugs in R back in, but it obviously is a conundrum, whether to do that or to fix issues that have cropped up in a package over three years. 

The author seems to have a beef with CRAN (we saw an outburst less than a week ago), but from what I gather, Rstem got rolled into RTextTools, which _is_ on CRAN, so you might get away with installing that, then get the sentiment-tarball from CRAN, unpack it, modify dependencies, and see whether sentiment installs from its local directory. (You can also get it from the author's github, but that hasn't been touch for three years either, and modifying probably isn't easier that way.)

It's not unlikely that you will need a copy of "Writing R Extensions" at hand.

-pd


On 24 Feb 2016, at 15:02 , boB Rudis <bob at rudis.net> wrote:

> Will you be able to fix the issues that crop up (or even notice the
> issues) for these unsupported packages? (There _is_ a reason they
> aren't in CRAN anymore.) That particular one (which is, indeed,
> archived in CRAN) also depends on Rstem, which is also archived on
> CRAN, and now (according to CRAN) "only available on OmegaHat" (though
> older versions in the archive). OmegaHat has been down for a bit, too
> (including today).
> 
> Basing a business practice on these packages seems to be--at best--an
> unwise idea.
> 
> I'd suggest moving back to a version of R that those pkgs are able to
> run on (probably best in a VM) and use Ista's suggestion or something
> like MRAN to get specific versions then freeze that VM for future use.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Installing unsupported packages is usually not a good idea (there is a
>> reason they were removed...).
>> 
>> But if you must:
>> 
>> install.packages("devtools")
>> install_version("sentiment", '0.2')
>> 
>> Best,
>> Ista
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Sandeep Rana
>> <sunnysingha.analytics at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I have newly installed R version 3.2.3 and experiencing an issue where the
>>> packages that I had been using in previous release aren't compatible in the
>>> latest release.
>>> I need you help to suggest how we could force the installation even if its
>>> not supported or what is the workaround to move ahead with it.
>>> 
>>> Right now, I need to install the package 'sentiment'. Please help.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Sandeep S. Rana
>>> 
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