Package bigmemory not installing on R 64 3.0.2 [du

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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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.