The Carbon version of R cannot download and install packages. You have
to install them manually, and if this involves building shared libs
that is
a royal pain. The Darwin version uses the standard *nix tools and has no
such problems.
-- Jan
On Tuesday, Dec 10, 2002, at 14:14 US/Pacific, Leo Wang-Kit Cheung
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to using R. I am using the MacOS rm161 version on my
> PowerMac G4, and having problem installing a new package msm.
> Within R, I typed
>
>> options(CRAN = "http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/")
>
> Then, I use the following functions, but keep getting errors.
>
>> install.packages("msm")
> Error: couldn't find function "install.packages"
>
> and
>
>> download.packages("msm")
> Error: couldn't find function "download.packages"
>
> Please help. Thanks!
>
> Leo
>
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