Hello Lara, I recently installed a number of packages through compiling. After downloading the package using 'wget', running R CMD INSTALL package.tar.gz should work.
Sincerely, Shouro On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Lars Bishop <lars...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Jim. I don't think that is the issue...if anyone else can shed some > light here, that would be much appreciated. > > Regards > Lars. > > On Saturday, 30 April 2016, Jim Lemon <drjimle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Lars, > > A mystery, but for the bodgy characters in your error message. Perhaps > > there is a problem with R trying to read a different character set > > from that used in the package. > > > > Jim > > > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Lars Bishop <lars...@gmail.com > > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I can’t seem to be able to install packages on a redhat-linux-gnu. For > > > instance, this is what happens when I try to install “bitops”. Any hint > > on > > > what might be the issue would be much appreciated. > > > > > >> sessionInfo() > > > R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10) > > > Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit) > > > Running under: Red Hat Enterprise Linux > > > > > >> Sys.setenv(https_proxy="https://labproxy.com:8080") > > >> install.packages("bitops", lib="mypath ") > > > > > > Here I choose: 22: (HTTP mirrors) and then a mirror 16:Canada(ON) > > > > > > * installing *source* package âbitopsâ ... > > > ** package âbitopsâ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > > Error in readRDS(pfile) : error reading from connection > > > ERROR: lazy loading failed for package âbitopsâ > > > > > > I’ve also tried from the shell (after downloading the package source) > > > > > > $ R CMD INSTALL bitops_1.0-6.tar.gz > > > ERROR: cannot extract package from bitops_1.0-6.tar.gz > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Lars. > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > R-help@r-project.org <javascript:;> 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. > > > > [[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. -- Shouro Dasgupta, PhD Junior Researcher Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) | Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, 8 30124 Venezia Phone: +39 041 2700 436 [[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.