R help - Jan 2005 - warnings and errors with R CMD INSTALL

Hello,

unfortunately I had to compile latest version of R-2.0.1 by myself. I'd
rather would prefer vendors binaries but since the current version of
Ubuntu defaults to 1.9.x I had to compile R on my own in order to be up
to date!
So far, everything went fine and R runs smoothly. Unfortunately I am not
able to use R CMD INSTALL command to install add-on packages.

I followed RNews 3/3 and used:

1. R CMD INSTALL package_version.tar.gz 

and

2.options(CRAN="http://umfragen.sowi.uni-mainz.de/CRAN/")
install.packages("pkg1". "pkg2")

Both approaches end up i.e.:

WARNING: invalid package 'pkg1.tar.gz'
ERROR: no packages specified

Well, R administration manual and RNews give some examples which I took
as basis to install further packages.
I, as suggested in RNews and administration manual alike, omitted the -l
option, since I want to stay with default library location!

Obviously I am stuck in a situation not covered by the docs! Well, most
likely I misunderstand something, can anyone help out with this?

greetings

Thomas



system:


platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i686             
os       linux-gnu        
system   i686, linux-gnu  
status                    
major    2                
minor    0.1              
year     2004             
month    11               
day      15               
language R

Hello,

Am Dienstag, den 04.01.2005, 23:25 +0000 schrieb Prof Brian
Ripley:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, thomas wrote:
> >
> > I followed RNews 3/3 and used:
> >
> > 1. R CMD INSTALL package_version.tar.gz
> >
> > and
> >
> > 2.options(CRAN="http://umfragen.sowi.uni-mainz.de/CRAN/")
> > install.packages("pkg1". "pkg2")
> >
> > Both approaches end up i.e.:
> >
> > WARNING: invalid package 'pkg1.tar.gz'
> > ERROR: no packages specified
> 
> But there is no package `pkg1' on CRAN.  Try a real name like
> 
> install.packages("tree")
Well, of cause I didn't want install pkg1 or pkg2,
the precise commandline was:

1. R CMD INSTALL epitools_0.3-3.tar.gz

and

2.  install.packages("accuracy", "zoo", "abind")

Sorry for being so unclear in my first message! I did take the package
names from R-CRAN website, copied and pasted to commandline


Thanks
Thomas

thomas <tom_hoary <at> web.de> writes:
> Hello,
> 
> unfortunately I had to compile latest version of R-2.0.1 by myself. I'd
> rather would prefer vendors binaries but since the current version of
> Ubuntu defaults to 1.9.x I had to compile R on my own in order to be up
> to date!
You could have gotten R 2.0.1 from Debian. Ubuntu is a Debian derivative, and 
that is a feature you can take advantage of:  Debian packages should just work.
> So far, everything went fine and R runs smoothly. Unfortunately I am not
> able to use R CMD INSTALL command to install add-on packages.
> 
> I followed RNews 3/3 and used:
> 
> 1. R CMD INSTALL package_version.tar.gz 
Did you do that as root? 
> and
> 
> 2.options(CRAN="http://umfragen.sowi.uni-mainz.de/CRAN/")
> install.packages("pkg1". "pkg2")
Should be    install.packages(c("pkg1", "pkg2"))    You seem
to have
misunderstood how to create a vector on the fly.
> Both approaches end up i.e.:
> 
> WARNING: invalid package 'pkg1.tar.gz'
> ERROR: no packages specified
> 
> Well, R administration manual and RNews give some examples which I took
> as basis to install further packages.
> I, as suggested in RNews and administration manual alike, omitted the -l
> option, since I want to stay with default library location!
Which requires root rights.
> Obviously I am stuck in a situation not covered by the docs! Well, most
Not sure I agree here.
> likely I misunderstand something, can anyone help out with this?
Hope this helps, Dirk