R devel - Mar 2001 - docs + packages (PR#858)

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Today I have installed R 1.02.1  on my MSW-95 laptop;
it essentially worked, but thre are two problems:

1) Although I have chose to install "standard", compiled HTML"
and "WinHelp"  documentation files, and in spite of the fact
that the installer program mwinst.exe reported to hve done this, 
only the first type of documentation is actually accessible
from the Help menu of RGui.

2) I have then attempted to load some packages, but some of
them are declared "non-existent"... see below.
Some others (sm, survival5, nlme) installed correctly and they work;
so the missing "lib" 
> 
install.packages(c("sm","sn","integrate","survival5","nlme"))
Delete downloaded files (y/N)? y

Warning messages: 
1: argument `lib` is missing: using C:/STAT/R/RW1021/library in:
install.packages(c("sm", "sn", "integrate",
"survival5", "nlme"))
2: No package "sn" on CRAN. in: download.packages(pkgs, destdir =
tmpd,
available = available,  
3: No package "integrate" on CRAN. in: download.packages(pkgs, destdir
tmpd, available = available,

> install.packages("integrate")
Warning messages: 
1: argument `lib` is missing: using C:/STAT/R/RW1021/library in:
install.packages("integrate") 
2: No package "integrate" on CRAN. in: download.packages(pkgs, destdir
tmpd, available = available,  
> install.packages("sn")
Warning messages: 
1: argument `lib` is missing: using C:/STAT/R/RW1021/library in:
install.packages("sn") 
2: No package "sn" on CRAN. in: download.packages(pkgs, destdir =
tmpd,
available = available,  
> 
Thanks for your attention and consideration.
Best wishes

Adelchi Azzalini

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Version:
 platform = i386-pc-mingw32
 arch = x86
 os = Win32
 system = x86, Win32
 status = 
 major = 1
 minor = 2.1
 year = 2001
 month = 01
 day = 15
 language = R

Windows 9x 4.0 (build 950) 

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, package:sm, Autoloads, package:base
--
Adelchi Azzalini    <azzalini@stat.unipd.it>
Dept Statistical Sciences, University of Padua, Italy.
http://www.stat.unipd.it/~azzalini



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On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 aa@gwen.stat.unipd.it wrote:
> Today I have installed R 1.02.1  on my MSW-95 laptop;
1.2.1 I presume.
> it essentially worked, but thre are two problems:
>
> 1) Although I have chose to install "standard", compiled
HTML"
> and "WinHelp"  documentation files, and in spite of the fact
> that the installer program mwinst.exe reported to hve done this,
> only the first type of documentation is actually accessible
> from the Help menu of RGui.
That's not a bug: see ?help and ?help.start.  You can only use the CHTML
and WinHlp documentation via help or directly in Windows Explorer.
> 2) I have then attempted to load some packages, but some of
> them are declared "non-existent"... see below.
[...]

Again, see the documentation, namely the R for Windows FAQ.
Not all packages are available in pre-compiled form, so you will need
to compile the others yourself.  In particular, sn and integrate are not,
currently.

Brian

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