On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:57 AM, vaseem shaikh <vsma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > But still, i am also trying to install the package by locally giving > absolute path with repos= Null and type = "Source", will CRAN have any role > to play here??? To compile a package on Windows, you need to install R tools (Rtools) that contain the compilers and other software necessary for the compilation. The error you saw with the installation from local .tar.gz file indeed has nothing to do with CRAN but with the fact that you are missing the tools. See http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#The-Windows-toolset for details. If you don't want to install the Windows toolset, you can go to the Hmisc CRAN web page at http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Hmisc/index.html , download the Windows binary and install that using repos = NULL (but not type = "source"). HTH Peter ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
