Hi, >From your description I am guessing you're using Windows.
What you may need is to compile this package from source. It is explained in one of the R manuals (I can't remember which one though). You can also look at my "R Guide for Windows Users" at http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022/rinfo.php (Section 5). I'm not sure the exact contents in the labdsv_0.9-1.tar.gz , but in general you can first unpack it with, e.g.: tar zxvf labdsv_0.9-1.tar.gz then you may need: Rcmd labdsv_0.9-1 Hope this helps, Kevin ------------------------------------------------ Ko-Kang Kevin Wang Master of Science (MSc) Student Department of Statistics University of Auckland New Zealand www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Archaux Frederic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 9:46 PM Subject: [R] basic question Dear R users, Up to now, I only used precompiled packages. As I am working on vegetation ecology, I would be interested in using a package not stored by CRAN called labdsv_0.9-1.tar.gz and developped by Dave Roberts at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (unfortunately I did not find any corresponding .zip file). Although I tried to follow the proposed guidelines to install such a file in R, I did not succeed. I installed the library tools, the Perl and the MinGW softwares, but I feel all this stuff is useless in my case (my knowledge in informatic in so poor that I am reduced to "intuitions"!) I know this is probably one of the most FAQ, but I did not find the answer to my problem on the R-CRAN web site. Thank you in advance! Have a good day. Fr�d�ric Archaux (PhD, Engineer) ============================ Biodiversity and Forest Management Team CEMAGREF Domaine des Barres F-45290 Nogent-sur-Vernisson FRANCE [[alternate HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
