Re: [R] install.packages

2006-12-14 Thread Uwe Ligges
Aimin Yan wrote: I try to type this in my R-winEdt. GH! Again and again I have to tell that RWinEdt is just some enhancement for an editor that may help for you R programming, but is not related to any error messages you receive from R! but I got these. Do you know? Yes, you

[R] install.packages

2006-12-13 Thread Aimin Yan
I try to type this in my R-winEdt. but I got these. Do you know? Aimin install.packages('http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/plotrix_2.1-6.zip') Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, : no package

Re: [R] install.packages

2006-12-13 Thread Benilton Carvalho
install.packages(plotrix) b. On Dec 13, 2006, at 1:42 PM, Aimin Yan wrote: I try to type this in my R-winEdt. but I got these. Do you know? Aimin install.packages('http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/ windows/contrib/2.4/plotrix_2.1-6.zip') Warning in download.packages(pkgs,

Re: [R] install.packages for local zip files

2006-07-17 Thread Muhammad Subianto
On 7/16/06, Daniel Gatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: O/S: Linux R version : 2.2.1 The R server doesn't have http internet access. And the sys admins will not install the R libraries that I requested. So I have downloaded the packages that I want to intall and have moved them into my home

Re: [R] install.packages from local .tar.gz (was 'for local zip') files

2006-07-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Muhammad Subianto wrote: On 7/16/06, Daniel Gatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: O/S: Linux R version : 2.2.1 ^ That appears to be the problem. As the posting guide asked you to (***before posting***), please update. And I presume we really are talking

[R] install.packages for local zip files

2006-07-16 Thread Daniel Gatti
O/S: Linux R version : 2.2.1 The R server doesn't have http internet access. And the sys admins will not install the R libraries that I requested. So I have downloaded the packages that I want to intall and have moved them into my home directory on the server. These are a series of *.tar.gz

Re: [R] install.packages saying the car package is not in therepositories

2006-03-10 Thread Jeremy Morris
Please re-read the entire message I sent you yesterday as it already answered this question. (Hint: The answer is in the R FAQ too.) I couldn't find anything on the R FAQ's mentioning Debian specifically. And a simple search for 'upgrade' in the FAQ also turned up nothing. I even used Google

Re: [R] install.packages saying the car package is not in therepositories

2006-03-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 March 2006 at 19:14, Jeremy Morris wrote: | Please re-read the entire message I sent you yesterday as it already | answered this question. (Hint: The answer is in the R FAQ too.) | | I couldn't find anything on the R FAQ's mentioning Debian | specifically. And a simple search for

Re: [R] install.packages saying the car package is not in therepositories

2006-03-09 Thread Jeremy Morris
Thank you, this did the trick. In which case $ apt-get install r-cran-car is your friend. Is there anyway to upgrade my R install through CRAN? Or is there some Debian repository that has an upgraded version of R? Thanks again. Jeremy

Re: [R] install.packages saying the car package is not in therepositories

2006-03-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 9 March 2006 at 20:47, Jeremy Morris wrote: | Thank you, this did the trick. | | In which case | | $ apt-get install r-cran-car | | is your friend. | | Is there anyway to upgrade my R install through CRAN? Or is there | some Debian repository that has an upgraded version of R?

[R] install.packages saying the car package is not in the repositories

2006-03-08 Thread Jeremy Morris
I am attempting to install the car package using the command : install.packages('car',.Library) After I have chosen a mirror, I get the following message : Warning message: no package 'car' at the repositories in: download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, I used the

Re: [R] install.packages saying the car package is not in therepositories

2006-03-08 Thread John Fox
, March 08, 2006 5:22 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] install.packages saying the car package is not in therepositories I am attempting to install the car package using the command : install.packages('car',.Library) After I have chosen a mirror, I get the following message

Re: [R] install.packages saying the car package is not in therepositories

2006-03-08 Thread Jeremy Morris
I am running version 2.1.0 of R on a Debian Linux machine. Jeremy __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html

Re: [R] install.packages saying the car package is not in therepositories

2006-03-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 9 March 2006 at 02:23, Jeremy Morris wrote: | I am running version 2.1.0 of R on a Debian Linux machine. In which case $ apt-get install r-cran-car is your friend. 2.1.0 is ancient, so you could take advantage of the backport of the current R the Debian stable which Chris

[R] install.packages() failed

2006-02-10 Thread Zepu Zhang
I use Mac. I installed R with the download from R-project, so R is in /usr/bin/R. My TclTk library is installed via fink (although I don't remember I intentionally installed it) so libtk8.4.dylib is in /sw/lib. I tried to install the HDF5 package from within R: install.packages('hdf5

Re: [R] install.packages under SuSE 10 behind proxy, R 2.2.0 from source

2005-10-27 Thread Rainer M. Krug
Hi I figured it out. if I use install.packages(..., method=wget) it works but if I use the default method, it doesn't. Rainer Rainer M. Krug wrote: Hi I installed R 2.2.0 from source and want to use install.packages but it doesn't work. http_proxy is set to http://proxy.sun.ac.za:3128

[R] install.packages under SuSE 10 behind proxy, R 2.2.0 from source

2005-10-26 Thread Rainer M. Krug
Hi I installed R 2.2.0 from source and want to use install.packages but it doesn't work. http_proxy is set to http://proxy.sun.ac.za:3128 but it still can't connect to the repository. The mirror is available, I can connect to it via the internet. Any help welcome, Rainer -- NEW TELEPHONE

RE: [R] install.packages parameters

2005-05-17 Thread Liaw, Andy
Caveat: I know next to nothing about Mac... That said, my guess is that you installed R from binary, rather than building from source. In that case the compilers and flags, etc., are configured to the machine that the binary is built on. You can look in $RHOME/etc/Makeconf to see the settings,

[R] install.packages parameters

2005-05-16 Thread Janet Elise Rosenbaum
Hello. R is having some trouble installing a package because it passed arguments to gcc which were non-existent directories and files. It also didn't find g77, although it's in a directory in my $PATH; I tricked it by making a sym link in /usr/bin. What file does R get these parameters

[R] install.packages and MacOS 10.3.8

2005-04-13 Thread Patrick Giraudoux
Dear Listers, I am trying to install packages via install.packages() from MacOS 10.3.8. Installing work fine when run from the menu, but the following command (useful for setting up each computer of the student computer room) leads nowhere for some reasons:

Re: [R] install.packages and MacOS 10.3.8

2005-04-13 Thread Uwe Ligges
Patrick Giraudoux wrote: Dear Listers, I am trying to install packages via install.packages() from MacOS 10.3.8. Installing work fine when run from the menu, but the following command (useful for setting up each computer of the student computer room) leads nowhere for some reasons:

Re: [R] install.packages and MacOS 10.3.8

2005-04-13 Thread Patrick Giraudoux
Dear Uwe, That install.binaries() was exactly what I needed... Thanks a lot. Uwe Ligges a écrit : Patrick Giraudoux wrote: Dear Listers, I am trying to install packages via install.packages() from MacOS 10.3.8. Installing work fine when run from the menu, but the following command (useful for

RE: [R] install.packages() for local source file

2005-01-01 Thread Liaw, Andy
Please read ?install.packages. It's most definitely not a bug for a function that works as documented. If you want, you might take the source for install.packages and strip it down to do what you want, say something called installLocalPackages. Andy From: Paul Roebuck Wish to install a

RE: [R] install.packages() for local source file

2005-01-01 Thread Paul Roebuck
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote: From: Paul Roebuck Wish to install a local source package on Un*x platform from within R. Same thing as I can accomplish from cmdline as $ export R_LIBS=~/R/library $ cd /path/to/pkg $ R CMD INSTALL -l $R_LIBS pkgname So, how do you go

RE: [R] install.packages() for local source file

2005-01-01 Thread Liaw, Andy
The version of ?install.packages (in R-2.0.1) I've read never said it could install local source packages, so why would it be considered a bug not being able to do something that is never claimed? You seem to expect the function to do something that it is never designed to do. Andy From: Paul

RE: [R] install.packages() for local source file

2005-01-01 Thread Paul Roebuck
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote: From: Paul Roebuck Please read ?install.packages. It's most definitely not a bug for a function that works as documented. If you want, you might take the source for install.packages and strip it down to do what you want, say something called

Re: [R] install.packages() for local source file

2005-01-01 Thread Roger D. Peng
By the way, do you get this error in a recent version of R (say = 1.9.1). I believe install.packages() has changed since 1.9.0. For example, see the thread starting here https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-July/053001.html -roger Paul Roebuck wrote: Wish to install a local source

Re: [R] install.packages() for local source file

2005-01-01 Thread Paul Roebuck
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Roger D. Peng wrote: Paul Roebuck wrote: Wish to install a local source package on Un*x platform from within R. Same thing as I can accomplish from cmdline as $ export R_LIBS=~/R/library $ cd /path/to/pkg $ R CMD INSTALL -l $R_LIBS pkgname So, how do you go

[R] install.packages() for local source file

2004-12-31 Thread Paul Roebuck
Wish to install a local source package on Un*x platform from within R. Same thing as I can accomplish from cmdline as $ export R_LIBS=~/R/library $ cd /path/to/pkg $ R CMD INSTALL -l $R_LIBS pkgname So, how do you go about this anyway? And isn't this a bug in 'install.packages'? --- $ R R

[R] install.packages() vs. update.packages()

2004-12-30 Thread Gorjanc Gregor
Hello! Is there virtually any difference if one uses install.packages() or update.packages() for updating/upgrading of R packages? -- Lep pozdrav / With regards, Gregor GORJANC --- University of Ljubljana Biotechnical Faculty

Re: [R] install.packages() vs. update.packages()

2004-12-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Gorjanc Gregor Gregor.Gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si writes: : : Hello! : : Is there virtually any difference if one uses install.packages() or : update.packages() for updating/upgrading of R packages? update.packages calls install.packages to do the installation. Check out the source.

[R] install.packages, bundles, pmatch, and Rprofile...

2004-11-02 Thread Andy Bunn
Hi, Somebody asked me to make sure that all the machines running the in our lab (XP and Linux, both running 2.0) have R installed and that A) All the packages are installed and B) kept up-to-date. Obediently, I began to modify a shared Rprofile so that once a week it checks for new packages and

Re: [R] install.packages, bundles, pmatch, and Rprofile...

2004-11-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Andy Bunn wrote: Hi, Somebody asked me to make sure that all the machines running the in our lab (XP and Linux, both running 2.0) have R installed and that A) All the packages are installed and B) kept up-to-date. Obediently, I began to modify a shared Rprofile so

[R] install.packages and warnings

2004-04-21 Thread Göran Broström
When I install packages from CRAN I sometimes get a hint about warnings: --- install.packages(c(Hmisc, Design)) .. which.influence texthtmllatex example There were 14 warnings (use warnings() to see them) * DONE (Design)

Re: [R] install.packages and warnings

2004-04-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
These are probably indicating many files lacking EOL on the last line. It comes from echo .installPackageIndices(\.\, \${R_PACKAGE_DIR}\) | \ R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=tools ${R_EXE} --vanilla /dev/null if test ${?} -ne 0; then error installing package indices failed do_exit_on_error

Re: [R] install.packages

2004-04-16 Thread Jim Lemon
I hope I will be pardoned for asking what may be a dumb question on this thread. Recently I noticed that when I tried my established method of adding a package to R (i.e. download the *.tar.gz file to a directory of similar files and INSTALL), I was no longer able to do this. I did eventually

Re: [R] install.packages

2004-04-16 Thread Uwe Ligges
Jim Lemon wrote: I hope I will be pardoned for asking what may be a dumb question on this thread. Recently I noticed that when I tried my established method of adding a package to R (i.e. download the *.tar.gz file to a directory of similar files and INSTALL), I was no longer able to do this. I

Re: [R] install.packages

2004-04-16 Thread Olivia Lau
in the project. I work in Win98 I R updated my library, some problems with some files that R were in the PACKAGES list but not in 1.9/ site, now all R are. I tried to install Zelig from Harvard R install.packages(Zelig,CRAN=http://gking.harvard.edu;) R this worked in 1.8.1

Re: [R] install.packages

2004-04-16 Thread Martin Maechler
Olivia == Olivia Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:48:31 -0400 (EDT) writes: . Olivia One question about the CRAN submission process: Once Olivia the package is on CRAN, how frequently can we update Olivia the package (release a new version)? Is it

[R] install.packages

2004-04-15 Thread R. Heberto Ghezzo
Hello, I just downloaded RW1090. No problems. My thanks to everybody involved in the project. I work in Win98 I updated my library, some problems with some files that were in the PACKAGES list but not in 1.9/ site, now all are. I tried to install Zelig from Harvard

Re: [R] install.packages

2004-04-15 Thread Peter Dalgaard
R. Heberto Ghezzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I just downloaded RW1090. No problems. My thanks to everybody involved in the project. I work in Win98 I updated my library, some problems with some files that were in the PACKAGES list but not in 1.9/ site, now all are. I tried to install

Re: [R] install.packages

2004-04-15 Thread Martin Maechler
in the PACKAGES list but not in 1.9/ site, now all R are. I tried to install Zelig from Harvard R install.packages(Zelig,CRAN=http://gking.harvard.edu;) R this worked in 1.8.1 but now it appends R bin/windows/contrib/1.9 to the address and of course it R can not find the file and aborts

[R] install.packages() for a local file

2003-11-13 Thread Jeff Gentry
Hello ... I see that on Windows one can specify a filename as the pkgs argument and then set CRAN=NULL when calling install.packages() for a local file. Is there a way to do this on unix? It doesn't appear to be possible, but perhaps I am missing something here. Also, if indeed there is no

Re: [R] install.packages (newbie?) error

2003-08-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
If you are using the Carbon version of R (there are *two* ports for MacOS X) then install.packages() is not included. (Where have you been reading about it: under documentation for a different port?) You need to get akima.sit from the /bin/macos/contrib area on CRAN. On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Åsa

[R] install.packages (newbie?) error

2003-08-03 Thread Åsa Byström
I recently installed R 1.7.1 on Mac OS 10.2.6, and I now need to install the akima package. When I use install.packages(akima) or any variation of that command, I get the following message: Error: couldn't find function install.packages (I haven't had any problems with other commands so far,