I am an intermediate R user with little understanding of the working of R packages. My problem is with the package RWinEdt.
I was using using WinEdt 6 with R 3.1.3 and R-Sweave-6 in Windows 7 rather smoothly. Then I got a brand new computer,still running windows 7. I installed R 3.1.3, no new packages except the base packages. I installed WinEdt 6. I cannot get RWinEdt to install. I tried: RWinEdt_2.0-4.tar.gz RWinEdt2.0-0.zip RWinEdt_1.6-2.zip nothing worked. Error messages from trying different strategies include: ******* 1 ******** > install.packages("RWinEdt", type="source") trying URL 'http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/contrib/RWinEdt_2.0-5.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 590307 bytes (576 KB) opened URL downloaded 576 KB * installing *source* package 'RWinEdt' ... ** package 'RWinEdt' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** libs *** arch - i386 Warning: running command 'make -f "Makevars.win" -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.3/etc/i386/Makeconf" -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.3/share/make/winshlib.mk" SHLIB="RWinEdt.dll" OBJECTS="ismdi.o"' had status 127 ERROR: compilation failed for package 'RWinEdt' * removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.1.3/library/RWinEdt' The downloaded source packages are in ‘C:\Users\cy\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpgdAJ2x\downloaded_packages’ Warning messages: 1: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.3/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.1.3\library" C:\Users\CYNTHI~1.YEU\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpgdAJ2x/downloaded_packages/RWinEdt_2.0-5.tar.gz' had status 1 2: In install.packages("RWinEdt", type = "source") : installation of package ‘RWinEdt’ had non-zero exit status > library(RWinEdt) Error in library(RWinEdt) : there is no package called ‘RWinEdt’ > utils:::menuInstallPkgs() Error in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA, type = type) : no packages were specified ****************** ******* 2 ******** > install.packages("D:/Documents/Downloads/RWinEdt_1.8-3.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type="source") * installing *source* package 'RWinEdt' ... ** libs *** arch - i386 Warning: running command 'make -f "Makevars.win" -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.3/etc/i386/Makeconf" -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.3/share/make/winshlib.mk" SHLIB="RWinEdt.dll" OBJECTS="ismdi.o"' had status 127 ERROR: compilation failed for package 'RWinEdt' * removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.1.3/library/RWinEdt' Warning messages: 1: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.3/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.1.3\library" "D:/Documents/Downloads/RWinEdt_1.8-3.tar.gz"' had status 1 2: In install.packages("D:/Documents/Downloads/RWinEdt_1.8-3.tar.gz", : installation of package ‘D:/Documents/Downloads/RWinEdt_1.8-3.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status > utils:::menuInstallLocal() package ‘RWinEdt’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > library(RWinEdt) Error: package ‘RWinEdt’ was built before R 3.0.0: please re-install it > install.packages('RWinEdt') package ‘RWinEdt’ is available as a source package but not as a binary Warning message: package ‘RWinEdt’ is not available (as a binary package for R version 3.1.3) ****************** ******* 3 ******** > install.packages('RWinEdt') Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.rforge.net/bin/windows/contrib/3.1 package ‘RWinEdt’ is available as a source package but not as a binary ****************** Appreciate any help. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.