Fortunately I was able to find package on the web. Unfortunately - installing old package on GNU R version 3.0.0 simply generates an error when trying to load it.
So for now the only solution for me was to:
- Install GNU R 2.15.3 in parallel to new one (fortunately this is not a problem)
- downloading tikzDevice 0.6.3 which can be found at http://download.r-forge.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/
- installing tikzDevice manually from local disk
- installing filehash package that it requires
I really hope that tikzDevice will be back to CRAN in the future.
Did you consider installing from source? You can use the following line to download from R-forge:
ReplyDeleteinstall.packages("tikzDevice", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org", type="source")
That way you don't have to have 2.15.3 installed. You may need to install Rtools first, though: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/
Yes, installing from source is a much better option. If you are using Windows, the only extra thing you need to do is to install the Rtools: http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/
ReplyDeleteApparently, the author did not fix certain issues fast enough so it got pulled. Considering how vital TikzDevice is for me, this is really annoying.
ReplyDeleteI contacted the author Till Tantau about it, and he didn't respond. I'm a big fan of the package too, and I hope it will be updated to work with R 3.0.0.
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.modelworks.ch/?p=340
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