> If I select > "packages > install packages" in the R console, I get a message, "no > packages were specified". I thought this command gave me a list of packages > available to install.
You are thinking of the command line function "installed.packages", not the menu function or the package installation function "install.packages" The latter needs a list of packages to install. The former tells you what is already installed. S Ellison ******************************************************************* This email and any attachments are confidential. Any use...{{dropped:8}} ______________________________________________ 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.