Hi Simon,
my Mac or Unix skills are not that great so I need a few more clues with
my problem. I read you as suggesting that my tar.gz package files be
uncompressed somehow and then placed somewhere and possibly somehow
letting R know that this has been done.
I think that I may need a little more help with the "somehow",
"somewhere" and "possibly somehow".
Cheers, Murray Jorgensen
Simon Urbanek wrote:
On Jan 13, 2010, at 6:17 , Murray Jorgensen wrote:
Thanks, Simon.
But "Local Binary Package" seems to only accept a single package
selection and I want the lot. This would seem to be very very slow to
load this way.
Yes, because it's designed for something entirely different --
installing single development package from its sources (developers often
do that for testing so they don't have to pack it up in the first place).
What I wish to do is to download the package files on one machine
(actually an external drive connected to a PC) and then connect the
drive to the Mac and install them from the drive.
Well, then why don't you simply unpack them all into your library?
That's the fastest and simplest way ...
Cheers,
Simon
Simon Urbanek wrote:
On Jan 12, 2010, at 16:33 , Murray Jorgensen wrote:
Hi
I have downloaded and installed R 2.10.1 to my Mac running OS X 10.5.8.
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.20f4
Serial Number (system): W87438YWX86
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-001B63AA8FF1
[In case this is relevant!]
I have tgz files for all the packages [plus some other files] in
/Applications/tgz10.1 .
When I attempt to use the R Package Installer and select the tzg10.1
folder as the "Local Package Directory" the result that I get is
You are using the wrong menu item - that menu is for installing
*package directories* i.e. packages in unpacked form. For .tgz files
you want to use "Local binary package". But, please, note that
installing packages that way is only for very, very special cases -
normally you should use "CRAN (binaries)" instead because that takes
care of dependencies, downloading, installation etc.
Cheers,
Simon
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Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Email: m...@waikato.ac.nz Fax 7 838 4155
Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk Home +64 7 825 0441 Mobile 021 0200 8350
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