R help - Jan 2010 - problems using the bc package

Hi All,

I am hoping that someone have an answer for this. I have downloaded the bc
package form the following link
http://code.google.com/p/r-bc/

from "on windows" and saved the file under R/library

I am using R form windows vista, when I open R, bc does not appear under
load packages.

I have tried the examples in 
http://www.kingcomputerservices.com/unix_101/using_bc_part_1.htm
 from the command line  an it works fine. the problem occurs when I try to
run the simple example in  http://code.google.com/p/r-bc/ from R in windows

here is what I get
> source("http://r-bc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/R/bc.R") 
> one <- bc(1) 
Error in system(cmd, input = input, intern = TRUE) : -l not
found
> 

thanks for your help


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Use a version of bc that supports the -l argument (which is used for
defining the standard math library).  There are links on the r-bc home
page.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:10 PM, kayj <kjaja27 at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am hoping that someone have an answer for this. I have downloaded the bc
> package form the following link
> http://code.google.com/p/r-bc/
>
> from "on windows" and saved the file under R/library
>
> I am using R form windows vista, when I open R, bc does not appear under
> load packages.
>
> I have tried the examples in
> http://www.kingcomputerservices.com/unix_101/using_bc_part_1.htm
> ?from the command line ?an it works fine. the problem occurs when I try to
> run the simple example in ?http://code.google.com/p/r-bc/ from R in windows
>
> here is what I get
>
>> source("http://r-bc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/R/bc.R")
>> one <- bc(1)
> Error in system(cmd, input = input, intern = TRUE) : -l not found
>>
>
>
> thanks for your help
>
>
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I have tried to redownload the zipped folder form the following link
http://code.google.com/p/r-bc/downloads/list , windows is not giving me a
permission to extract the files.did anyone try it?


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