Bryan,
there are several issues, but let's start with the most hopeful one:
install.packages(pkgs = "ChemoSpec_1.31.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type
= "source")
* installing *source* package 'ChemoSpec' ...
** R
** data
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Warning in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE,
lib.loc = lib.loc) :
there is no package called 'chemometrics'
Error : package 'chemometrics' could not be loaded
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'ChemoSpec'
* removing 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-210~1.0/library/ChemoSpec'
* restoring previous 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-210~1.0/library/ChemoSpec'
As Brian pointed out you can now install source packages on Windows --
the only reason it fails is that you are missing dependent packages -
"chemometrics" in this case. So install all dependencies first and you
don't have to worry about binary packages - just use the source and
all will be well.
Then all the other issues are that you're trying to install the binary
package the wrong way. In fact the easiest way to install is to simply
unpack in the "library" directory. The problems you encountered come
from the name mismatches - the name of the file does really matter and
your "SU" / "UL" postfix that you added manually is breaking it.
Please use the original names!
Cheers,
Simon
On Nov 30, 2009, at 14:30 , Bryan Hanson wrote:
Hello Folks, thanks for the suggestions. I did what Simon
suggested. And I
did what Ducan suggested, namely to use Uwe's building service. I
think
both of these produced the same set of files (though I don't know
how to
check rigorously). So I moved these two archives, along with my
source
archive, over to the Windows machine. I tried installing all of
them via
the GUI dialog boxes, and when that didn't work, I tried doing it
from the
command line.
I'm pretty certain I'm now no longer in the Mac realm :-( and I'm
pretty
certain I'm missing something obvious. It looks like it can't find
the
file, but the paths and names look right to me. If one unstuffs these
manually they look like they have the files. Any suggestions would be
appreciated. The transcript from what I did is immediately below.
Thanks, Bryan
*************
Bryan Hanson
Acting Chair
Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
DePauw University, Greencastle IN USA
getwd()
[1] "C:/Documents and Settings/Chemistry 1/Desktop"
list.files()
[1] "ChemoSpec_1.31-SU.zip" "ChemoSpec_1.31-UL.zip"
"ChemoSpec_1.31.tar.gz"
"outcome.txt"
# the next few steps are attempts at manual installations:
install.packages(pkgs = "ChemoSpec_1.31-SU.zip", repos = NULL)
Error in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In gzfile(file, "r") :
cannot open compressed file 'ChemoSpec_1.31-SU/DESCRIPTION', probable
reason 'No such file or directory'
install.packages(pkgs = "ChemoSpec_1.31.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type =
"source")
* installing *source* package 'ChemoSpec' ...
** R
** data
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Warning in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE,
lib.loc = lib.loc) :
there is no package called 'chemometrics'
Error : package 'chemometrics' could not be loaded
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'ChemoSpec'
* removing 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-210~1.0/library/ChemoSpec'
* restoring previous 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-210~1.0/library/ChemoSpec'
Warning message:
In install.packages(pkgs = "ChemoSpec_1.31.tar.gz", repos = NULL, :
installation of package 'ChemoSpec_1.31.tar.gz' had non-zero exit
status
# the next few are the attempts with the GUI dialog boxes
utils:::menuInstallLocal()
Error in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In gzfile(file, "r") :
cannot open compressed file 'ChemoSpec_1.31-SU/DESCRIPTION', probable
reason 'No such file or directory'
utils:::menuInstallLocal()
Error in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In gzfile(file, "r") :
cannot open compressed file 'ChemoSpec_1.31-UL/DESCRIPTION', probable
reason 'No such file or directory'
utils:::menuInstallLocal()
Error in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip
file
2: In gzfile(file, "r") :
cannot open compressed file 'ChemoSpec_1.31.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION',
probable
reason 'No such file or directory'
sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
i386-pc-mingw32
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.10.0
On 11/30/09 11:48 AM, "Prof Brian Ripley" <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 30/11/2009 11:10 AM, Bryan Hanson wrote:
Hi R Mac Folks... A question about using Mac-built pkgs on the
dreaded
Windows machines.
I have successfully checked, built and installed a package on my
Mac. The
package tarball is at github.com/bryanhanson/ChemoSpec if you
care to try
installing it. It was checked and built with defaults, so I did
R CMD check ChemoSpec
R CMD build ChemoSpec
And everything was fine. I can install it and run it on my Mac
no problem.
I believe it is a “source” package – there is no compiled code,
it’s all
straightfoward R.
Now, I want to test the installation on Windows (because students
have to
use it next semester). I’m having a variety of problems getting it
upzipped
and installed. Before I spend a lot of time trouble shooting the
Windows
aspect, and here’s my question, should this package as I built it
and so
forth work on Windows without modification? Or do I have to do
the
check/build with different options? Or do I have to do the
entire process
on a Windows machine (pray not!). I’ve looked around in the
manuals and
help pages a bit, there doesn’t seem to be any hint that a
different
process
is needed.
The source tarball (the .tar.gz file) would be fine on Windows,
but most
Windows users don't have the tools to install it. Since you don't
have any
compiled code it's probably not hard to put together a zip file
equivalent to
what R CMD INSTALL --binary would produce on Windows, but it's
probably
easier to use Uwe Ligge's package building service, available at
http://129.217.207.166.
I agree with the conclusion (not least as it checks the package works
on Windows), but in current R (2.10.0) you actually don't need any
extra tools to install such a source package on Windows.
It's all in the manuals ....
Duncan Murdoch
By the way, I can manually get the entire package intact as text
files to
the proper Windows directory, but R claims it is not a valid
installed
package. Any of the RGui Windows means of installing the package
give
various problems. I’ll keep trouble shooting these but I wanted
to double
check that what I am trying to do should work.
Thanks, Bryan
**************
Bryan Hanson
Acting Chair
Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
DePauw University
602 S. College Avenue
Greencastle, IN 46135
PHONE 765-658-4602
FAX 765-658-6084
han...@depauw.edu
http://academic.depauw.edu/~hanson/deadpezsociety.html
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