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Trouble installing quantreg package in Fedora

I was trying to install the AER package and quantreg is a dependency, I get the following warning and AER is not installed:

Warning in install.packages :
   URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/quantreg_5.24.tar.gz': status was '404 Not Found'

Then I tried to install quantreg and got the same error.

I looked at the URL, and saw that the newest version is quantreg_5.26. Can I somehow install this version from Rstudio, or does the AER package require the older version? How should I proceed?

I have R version 3.3.0.

Solution

  • Sometimes it helps to install the dependency first (quantreg), then install the package you really want (AER).

    FWIW, I'm on linux mint, and when I just installed AER it didn't even install quantreg at all... (granted, I'm not trying to use AER, so I don't mind...)