On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Simon Urbanek wrote:
On Oct 20, 2008, at 13:34 , Mollie Brooks wrote:
Hi Dave,
I've also had problems with the Package manager. I haven't figured out how
to use packages that I've downloaded directly from the cran website.
It's not clear if these are source or binary packages.
I found another way of doing it instead: in the R Package Installer, choose
CRAN (sources). Then click "Get List". You can install packages from the
list (with location set to "At system level"). Then they load just fine
using the load() function in the command window.
I hope this helps. If someone else knows of another way to install
downloaded packages, I would be interested to learn because it has caused
me some frustration.
Can you be more specific, please? Neither of you has described a problem with
the packages - the Package Manager is there primarily to browse the
documentation, not install packages... If you have problem installing
packages, please tell us exactly what you're doing and what errors you get
...
It seems likely that
install.packages("<path/to/downloaded/file>", repos=NULL)
is what Mollie is looking for (works for source or binary packages, but
for source packages you currently need to add 'type="source"'). If you
want to use a GUI to choose a file, perhaps
install.packages(file.choose(), repos=NULL)
Cheers,
Simon
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Greetings,
My apologies if this is a very simple question. I downloaded and
installed a couple of packages today. In the package manager in R for Mac
(version 2.7.2), I find that when I try to load the package, I can't. The
load button never clicks on. Why is that? As an example, I'm trying to
use Ryacas. Thanks in advance,
David
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