R

My notes on the R programming language

• Biology
• Create
• Functions
• Phylogenies
• Plot
• Scripting
• Statistics
• Stochastic
• Strings
• Syntax
• Tables
• Top-Predator-Prey system

Hack to let plyr work on R 3.0.2

This is not a recommended procedure.

This procedure:

• Download the plyr tarball
• Unpacks the plyr tarball
• Modified the plyr/DESCRPTION file to depend on R 3.0.2
• Delete the original plyr tarball
• Packs the hacked tarball

The hacked tarball can then be installed in R. Sure, the MD5 checksum will fail :-)

PLYR_FILE=plyr_1.8.3.tar.gz

# Download the `plyr` tarball
wget https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/$PLYR_FILE

# Unpacks the `plyr` tarball
tar zxvf $PLYR_FILE

# Modified the `plyr/DESCRPTION` file to depend on R 3.0.2
sed -i plyr/DESCRIPTION -e 's/Depends: R (>= 3.1.0)/Depends: R (>= 3.0.2)/'

# Delete the original `plyr` tarball
rm $PLYR_FILE

# Packs the hacked tarball
tar cvzf $PLYR_FILE plyr/*

This is the bare-bone version of the full script in DownloadPlyr.sh.