<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Thanks, I'm now the proud owner of R 2.13.1 and the raster package.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Cheers</span></div><div><span>Rebecca<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Rebecca Bennett <rabennett@ymail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "grass-stats@lists.osgeo.org" <grass-stats@lists.osgeo.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 4 August 2011, 15:20<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
Re: [GRASS-stats] raster package<br></font><br>Thanks Roger<br><br>I tried following the instructions suggested to upgrade my version of R by adding a new cran mirror to my repositories.<br><br>I have tried both<br><br>deb <a href="http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu/</a> lucid<br>and<br>deb <a href="http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/</a> lucid<br><br>But these repositories crash out my system on reload with the error<br>Failed to fetch <a href="http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz%C2%A0" target="_blank">http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz </a> 404 Not Found<br>Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.<br><br>If anyone has been successful upgrading to
the latest R from Ubuntu 10.04 could you please give me some tips on where I'm going wrong?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Rebecca<br><br><br>>________________________________<br>>From: Roger Bivand <<a ymailto="mailto:Roger.Bivand@nhh.no" href="mailto:Roger.Bivand@nhh.no">Roger.Bivand@nhh.no</a>><br>>To: Rebecca Bennett <<a ymailto="mailto:rabennett@ymail.com" href="mailto:rabennett@ymail.com">rabennett@ymail.com</a>><br>>Cc: "<a ymailto="mailto:grass-stats@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:grass-stats@lists.osgeo.org">grass-stats@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a ymailto="mailto:grass-stats@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:grass-stats@lists.osgeo.org">grass-stats@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>>Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2011, 15:03<br>>Subject: Re: [GRASS-stats] raster package<br>><br>>On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Rebecca Bennett wrote:<br>><br>>> hell all,<br>>> <br>>> I have tried to install raster using
install.packages("raster")<br>>> <br>>> but have got the error:<br>>> <br>>> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :<br>>> package ‘raster’ is not available<br>>> <br>>> I am also unable to find it in Synaptic (Ubuntu 10.04).<br>>> <br>>> Here is the output of sessionInfo()<br>>> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) i486-pc-linux-gnu<br>><br>>If you refer to:<br>><br>><a href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/raster/index.html" target="_blank">http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/raster/index.html</a><br>><br>>you'll see that it requires R (≥ 2.11.0), which you don't meet. Your R is definitely in need of an upgrade, current is 2.13.1, and this is available as an ubuntu binary for lucid lynx:<br>><br>><a href="http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/"
target="_blank">http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/</a><br>><br>>Roger<br>><br>>> <br>>> locale:<br>>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.utf8 [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.utf8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C <br>>>
attached base packages:<br>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base <br>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):<br>>> [1] tcltk_2.10.1 tools_2.10.1<br>>> <br>>> Any ideas how I get this package?<br>>> <br>>> Cheers<br>>> Rebecca<br>><br>>-- Roger Bivand<br>>Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics,<br>>Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway.<br>>voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43<br>>e-mail: <a ymailto="mailto:Roger.Bivand@nhh.no" href="mailto:Roger.Bivand@nhh.no">Roger.Bivand@nhh.no</a><br>><br>><br>><br>_______________________________________________<br>grass-stats mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:grass-stats@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:grass-stats@lists.osgeo.org">grass-stats@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a
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