Hi all, I'm using R0.99a on WinNT4. I downloaded a bunch of packages and tried using Rinst.exe to install them. For whatever reason, Rinst.exe does not find all the packages I downloaded. I put all files in the same temp directory, but Rinst only finds some of them. I have no problem installing the rest with WinZip, but if Rinst works it would be much easier (don't have to run WinZip 20+ times). Anyone have any idea? Regards, Andy Liaw Merck Biometrics Research Phone: (732) 594-0820 Fax: (732) 594-1565 mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
"Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw at merck.com> writes:> Hi all, > > I'm using R0.99a on WinNT4. I downloaded a bunch of packages and tried > using Rinst.exe to install them. For whatever reason, Rinst.exe does not > find all the packages I downloaded. I put all files in the same temp > directory, but Rinst only finds some of them. I have no problem installing > the rest with WinZip, but if Rinst works it would be much easier (don't have > to run WinZip 20+ times). > > Anyone have any idea?Silly question #1, but it has to be asked: The installer window is scrollable, isn't it? -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
I think I know why Rwinst.exe doesn't list all packages on my machine. It must have kept a list of known package names internally and check for file names that match those package names. For whatever reason, when I down loaded the packages via my Netscape browser, most (but not all) file names have their first letter capitalized. Thus "gss.zip" becomes "Gss.zip", for example. And it's files like these that are not listed by Rwinst.exe. Since I downloaded all packages the same way at the same time, I have no idea why the file names got converted, or why it only happened to some but not all files. Somewhat related: Has anyone noticed? Win98/NT has this very annoying "feature" of ignoring cases users typed for a file name. In Windows Explorer, if I ask for a new folder and type "TEMP", it becomes "Temp". However, if I type "temp", it stays "temp". I wonder if my problem with Rwinst.exe is somehow related to this. Regards, Andy Liaw Merck Biometrics Research Phone: (732) 594-0820 Fax: (732) 594-1565 mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com> ---------- > From: Peter Dalgaard BSA[SMTP:p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk] > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 10:01 AM > To: Liaw, Andy > Cc: 'Peter Dalgaard BSA'; 'r-help' > Subject: Re: [R] Rinst.exe question > > "Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw at merck.com> writes: > > > Sure the window scrolls, but it does *not* list all packages I have in > the > > same directory. (It's flat out obvious because I downloaded just about > all > > the packages in the contrib section, yet it only lists about 4 or 5 of > > them.) I've checked this several times. Same thing on a Win98 machine. > > Doesn't happen here, I just tried with all 50+ of 'em on a W98. They > all have the proper .zip suffix and downloaded OK? (but how else could > winzip work with them?) The source directory is correct too? > > -- > O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 > c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N > (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 > ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. > -.-.- > r-help mailing list -- Read > http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html > Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" > (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. > _._._ >-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 08:04:46 -0500 > From: "Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw at merck.com> > > I think I know why Rwinst.exe doesn't list all packages on my machine. It > must have kept a list of known package names internally and check for file > names that match those package names.Nope, it looks for *.zip in the directory. It does not look for *.ZIP.> For whatever reason, when I down loaded the packages via my Netscape > browser, most (but not all) file names have their first letter capitalized. > Thus "gss.zip" becomes "Gss.zip", for example. And it's files like these > that are not listed by Rwinst.exe.Yes, that's because they are being saved under their 8.3 MS-DOS name, so the real name is GSS.ZIP, and Explorer is lying to you.> Since I downloaded all packages the same way at the same time, I have no > idea why the file names got converted, or why it only happened to some but > not all files.It only happens to those whose lowercased 8.3 name is the same as the actual name. That is, the original name is all lower case, less than 8+3 chars.> Somewhat related: Has anyone noticed? Win98/NT has this very annoying > "feature" of ignoring cases users typed for a file name. In Windows > Explorer, if I ask for a new folder and type "TEMP", it becomes "Temp". > However, if I type "temp", it stays "temp". I wonder if my problem with > Rwinst.exe is somehow related to this.Well, there are two related problems. Explorer likes to display the name as Temp, but it is really TEMP. (That can be turned off, at least on some versions of Windows. I have it turned off.) However NT has a habit of actually re-mapping names, as you saw with netscape. I can alter rwinst (which really is rwinst, not Rwinst or Rinst) to look for *.ZIP too, but not before the release of rw1000 tomorrow. By the way, the preferred way to install packages is with install.packages(), which you can use either with a local zip (or even ZIP) file or from a CRAN repository (well, from tomorrow as the index there is currently wrong). -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._