Greetings, My computer has these OS: 64-bit blfs linux R2.15.1 If one has downloaded a tarball for example MASS.tar.ga and unzip it Are there R commands to generate the following?:- a) the INDEX file b) 'R' files such as MASS.rdb and MASS.rdx advice would be appreciated sincerely luxInteg
On Aug 2, 2012, at 10:32 , luxInteg wrote:> Greetings, > > > My computer has these > OS: 64-bit blfs linux R2.15.1 > > If one has downloaded a tarball for example MASS.tar.ga and unzip it > > Are there R commands to generate the following?:- > > a) the INDEX file > b) 'R' files such as MASS.rdb and MASS.rdx > > advice would be appreciatedI think you need to read the Installation and Administration manual: http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
On Thursday 02 August 2012 09:39:18 peter dalgaard wrote:> I think you need to read the Installation and Administration manual: > > http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.htmlthanks but if you mean this http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installation I have studied it and I have not seen anything pretaining to using R on the command line to generat INDEX files. nor rdb/rdx files The closest I came was an email to a list in 2006 which discussed the latter https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2006-September/042700.html and this from 2003 pretaining to INDEX files https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2003-October/040862.html So I am still unclear IF one downloads an archived package and UNPACK it; if there are THEN options to pass to R to generate INDEX files and rdb/rdx files. Are there? sincerely luxInteg
On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:22 , luxInteg wrote:> On Thursday 02 August 2012 09:39:18 peter dalgaard wrote: > >> I think you need to read the Installation and Administration manual: >> >> http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html > > thanks > but if you mean this > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#InstallationYes, chapter 6. Do pay attention to the difference between R command-line usage and shell commands, though. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com