Hierarchical Model of Species Communities (HMSC) is an R package, which provides extensive set of analytical tools devised for numerical analysis of data on ecological communities or other similarly structured data. The methodological core of the HMSC approach is centered on combination of hierarchical regression and latent factor models.
Currently the recommended way to install the Hmsc package is to use install_github function from devtools package, available from CRAN. Additionally, since Hmsc is dependent on the BayesLogitpackage to support observation models for count data, and BayesLogit was temporary removed from CRAN, it is necessary to install it before installing Hmsc.
The following lines should sucessfully install Hmsc to your R in most cases:
library(devtools)
install_url('https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/BayesLogit/BayesLogit_0.6.tar.gz')
install_github("gtikhonov/HMSC")