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I am trying to install the bigmemory package in R 64 version 3.0.2 on Windows. I get the following error:

install.packages('bigmemory') 

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Audrey/Documents/R/win-library/3.0’(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning message: package ‘bigmemory’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2) 

> library(bigmemory)

Error in library(bigmemory) : there is no package called ‘bigmemory’

Any help or insight will be much appreciated. I get the same error with previous R version 2.15.

cdeterman
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Audrey
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  • For me this works: install.packages(c("BH","biglm")) install.packages("bigmemory", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") install.packages("bigmemory.sri", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") install.packages("biganalytics", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") install.packages("bigalgebra", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") library(bigmemory) – Tom Wenseleers Aug 25 '15 at 16:17
  • Or well this is a more recent version: install.packages(c("BH","biglm")); library(devtools); devtools::install_github('kaneplusplus/bigmemory',local=T); library(bigmemory); – Tom Wenseleers Aug 25 '15 at 19:23

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See http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bigmemory/index.html under "Windows Binary". There are no windows binarys available. Have a look at the Read-Me file.

Roland
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According to the package's news page, "Windows support is temporarily suspended due to issues with the Boost headers". That's the latest entry on the page, dated 2013-03-09.

Waldir Leoncio
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