Re: [R] problem in installing a package

2005-10-12 Thread Ting-Yuan Liu
Hi Claire, For the R CMD check error... It seems that you used some special characters, such as _, in your Rd files so that Latex can not handle them. Try to add the escape charatcer \ before these special characters. HTH, Ting-Yuan On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Claire Lee wrote: I'm using R in

Re: [R] problem in installing a package

2005-10-06 Thread Uwe Ligges
Claire Lee wrote: I'm using R in Windows XP. I created a package myself. I've used R CMD check to check it. Everything seems OK except the latex. I get the error message: * checking bbHist-manual.tex ... ERROR LaTeX errors when creating DVI version. This typically indicates Rd problems.

Re: [R] problem with installing a package

2005-10-06 Thread Claire Lee
directory, why is it stilling looking for the DESCRIPTION file in that diretory? I'm really puzzled. If anyone has any idea, please let me know. Thanks. Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:47:23 +0200 From: Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] problem in installing a package To: Claire Lee [EMAIL

Re: [R] problem with installing a package

2005-10-06 Thread Uwe Ligges
the bbHist directory, why is it stilling looking for the DESCRIPTION file in that diretory? I'm really puzzled. If anyone has any idea, please let me know. Thanks. Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:47:23 +0200 From: Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] problem in installing a package

Re: [R] Problem in installing quantreg package

2003-09-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Swagata Nandi wrote: I was trying to install package quantreg in an R session, but I got the follwing error message: ERROR: cannot write to or create directory '/usr/lib/R/library'. Can anyone suggest what I need to do to fix it up? Use the account you used to

Re: [R] Problem in installing quantreg package

2003-09-11 Thread Roger D. Peng
You probably do not have permission to write to that directory (and you need write permission to install a package). I assume you are on Unix? Either ask your system administrator to install it for you or install it into a directory where you have permission. For example, I make a

Re: [R] Problem in installing quantreg package

2003-09-11 Thread Laurent Faisnel
Swagata Nandi wrote: Hi, I was trying to install quantreg package in an R session, but got the following error message: ERROR: cannot write to or create directory '/usr/lib/R/library' Can anyone suggest what I need to do? Swagata Nandi __ [EMAIL

Re: [R] Problem in installing quantreg package

2003-09-11 Thread Swagata Nandi
Thanks, I could install it as superuser. Swagata. On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Roger D. Peng wrote: You probably do not have permission to write to that directory (and you need write permission to install a package). I assume you are on Unix? Either ask your system administrator to install it for