Asking the RWinEdt maintainer directly seems to be more appropriate than
asking on R-help.
There is no patch for the package RWinEdt available. Just the release
1.5-0 of that package.
Arnab mukherji wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I just tried to install the patch for RWinEdt - there is an automated
package ('SWinRegistry' ) which with the rwinedt patch on the CRAN site
have to be loaded as packages from R using the local zip drive option.
>
> That works fine. The next step is to call the library(RwinEdt) and this
does'nt work out ... the meesages i get are:
>
>
>>install.packages(choose.files('',filters=Filters[c('zip','All'),]),
.libPaths()[1], CRAN = NULL)
>
>
> updating HTML package descriptions
>
>
>
>>install.packages(choose.files('',filters=Filters[c('zip','All'),]),
.libPaths()[1], CRAN = NULL)
>
>
> updating HTML package descriptions
>
>
>
>>install.packages(choose.files('',filters=Filters[c('zip','All'),]),
.libPaths()[1], CRAN = NULL)
>
>
> updating HTML package descriptions
>
>
>
>>library(RWinEdt)
>
> Error in testRversion(descfile) : This package has not been installed
properly
> See the Note in ?library
> In addition: Warning message:
> package RWinEdt was built under R version 1.7.1
>
> I am using windows office 2000 and R ver 1.7 and hence the final error
message. I have tried it out on ver 1.7.1 too and i Get the same error.
>
> Was wondering if anyone else encountered this problem
Yes. The problem probably is that the package SWinRegistry has not been
installed properly.
Unfortunately, the source version is called
http://www.omegahat.org/SWinRegistry/SWinRegistry_0.3-2.zip
(Attention: .zip instead of the usual .tar.gz) and the binary version
http://www.omegahat.org/SWinRegistry/SWinRegistry_0.3-2_binary.zip
This name is not valid for R's mechanism for installing packages and has
to be renamed before installation, or unzip it manually.
I hope these filenames will be changed shortly.
So, for example do:
- download the binary version
- rename it to, e.g., SWinRegistry_0.3-2.zip (without the second
"_")
- Now, use the menu to install the package.
Duncan Temple Lang promised to change the names of source/binary
packages according to the CRAN conventions, but he seems to be too busy
these days. I'll update R-WinEdt's installation instructions with a new
release in a couple of days.
Uwe Ligges
> thanks
>
> Arnab
>
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