Try
install.packages('RMySQL', repos
="http://www.biometrics.mtu.edu/CRAN/";, dependencies=TRUE ,
type='source')
Check the help for install.packages() for an explanation of the
'type' argument, and some Mac-specific information about it.
-Don
At 10:00 AM -0700 7/5/06, Luo Weijun wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I tried to install RMySQL package, but the error
>messages says there is no such package, even though I
>did see RMySQL is there in the contributed package
>list in all mirror sites of CRAN I tried. Not sure
>what is the problem.
>
>> mysql.home <- '/usr/local/mysql'
>>
>Sys.putenv('PKG_CPPFLAGS'=paste('-I',file.path(mysql.home,'include'),sep=''))
>
>>
>Sys.putenv('PKG_LIBS'=paste('-L',file.path(mysql.home,'lib'),'
>-lmysqlclient',sep=''))
> > install.packages('RMySQL', repos =
>"http://www.biometrics.mtu.edu/CRAN/",dependencies =T)
>dependency ''RMySQL'' is not available
> > install.packages('RMySQL', repos =
>"http://www.biometrics.mtu.edu/CRAN/";)
>Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd,
>available = available, :
> no package 'RMySQL' at the repositories
>
>I tried download the package manually under unix, and
>install it from within R, and no luck too.
>
>cd ~/download/R
>curl -O
>http://www.biometrics.mtu.edu/CRAN/src/contrib/RMySQL_0.5-7.tar.gz
>
>> install.packages( 'RMySQL_0.5-7.tar.gz', repos =
>NULL)
>Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection
>In addition: Warning message:
>cannot open compressed file
>'RMySQL_0.5-7.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION'
>>
>
>> sessionInfo()
>Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24)
>powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0
>
>attached base packages:
>[1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices"
>"utils" "datasets"
>[7] "base"
>
>
>could anybody tell me what happens here, and how to
>fix the problem? Thank you so much!
>Weijun
>
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