How to install doRedis package version 1.0.5 into R 3.0.1 on Windows?

There is a bug in the current latest version of doRedis (1.1.0), and the downgrade to version 1.0.5 is recommended. However, I have not been able to install the 1.0.5 package into R 3.0.1 on Windows XP! I tried to follow the answers of the question "Installing older version of R package": The answer of Thomas doesn't work for me: ``` url <- 'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/doRedis/doRedis_1.0.5.tar.gz' install.packages(url, contriburl=NULL, type="source") # Warning message: # package ‘http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/doRedis/doRedis_1.0.5.tar.gz’ is not available (for R version 3.0.1) ``` The direct compilation (answer of Mark Butler) - doesn't work for me either, not even after uninstalling the previously installed version, not even after installing `devtools`: ``` c:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.1\bin>R CMD INSTALL doRedis_1.0.5.tar.gz * installing to library 'c:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.1/library' * installing *source* package 'doRedis' ... ** package 'doRedis' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** libs ERROR: compilation failed for package 'doRedis' * removing 'c:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.1/library/doRedis' ``` I tried to get the old windows binary zip file for R 2.14. R installs the package but when trying to load it I get the following error: ``` utils:::menuInstallLocal() # package ‘doRedis’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked require(doRedis) # Loading required package: doRedis # Failed with error: ‘package ‘doRedis’ was built before R 3.0.0: please re-install it’ ``` I also tried to use function `install_url` from package `devtools` as proposed by asieira: ``` > require(devtools) > url <- 'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/doRedis/doRedis_1.0.5.tar.gz' > install_url(url) Downloading doRedis_1.0.5.tar.gz from http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/doRedis/doRedis_1.0.5.tar.gz Installing package from C:\DOCUME~1\Tomas\LOCALS~1\Temp\RtmpwVmfgt/doRedis_1.0.5.tar.gz Installing doRedis pdflatex not found. Not building PDF vignettes. "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.1/bin/i386/R" --vanilla CMD build "C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas\Local \ Settings\Temp\RtmpwVmfgt\devtoolse4025f918\doRedis" --no-manual --no-resave-data --no-vignettes * checking for file 'C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas\Local Settings\Temp\RtmpwVmfgt\devtoolse4025f918\doRedis/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'doRedis': * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK * cleaning src Warning in cleanup_pkg(pkgdir, Log) : unable to run 'make clean' in 'src' * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files * checking for empty or unneeded directories * building 'doRedis_1.0.5.tar.gz' "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.1/bin/i386/R" --vanilla CMD INSTALL "C:\DOCUME~1\Tomas\LOCALS~1\Temp\RtmpwVmfgt/doRedis_1.0.5.tar.gz" \ --library="C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.1/library" --install-tests * installing *source* package 'doRedis' ... ** libs ERROR: compilation failed for package 'doRedis' * removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.1/library/doRedis' Error: Command failed (1) ``` Is there any way how to install the older package into R 3.0.1? EDIT: output of `sessionInfo()`: ``` > sessionInfo() R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=Czech_Czech Republic.1250 LC_CTYPE=Czech_Czech Republic.1250 LC_MONETARY=Czech_Czech Republic.1250 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=Czech_Czech Republic.1250 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] devtools_1.4.1 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] digest_0.6.4 evaluate_0.5.1 httr_0.3 memoise_0.1 parallel_3.0.1 RCurl_1.95-4.1 stringr_0.6.2 tools_3.0.1 [9] whisker_0.3-2 ```