Dear All, I am trying to fiugre out how install packages on the base system. The "FAQ" tells me that more details can be obtained by typing "help(install.packages)", but my R system gives me an error message when I did that. I also tried "help(PACKAGES)", "help(install.packages())", but none worked. Anybody can help? I am running R 1.1.1 on WinNT 4. Thanks a lot. Best, Shige Song Department of Sociology, UCLA -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
After some playing around, I think I know how to do it now. By the way, R seems to be much faster than Splus, at least under WinNT4. This is quite amazing! Best, Shige On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:59:36 -0700 Shige Song <sgsong at ucla.edu> wrote:> Dear All, > > I am trying to fiugre out how install packages on the base system. The > "FAQ" tells me that more details can be obtained by typing > "help(install.packages)", but my R system gives me an error message when > I did that. I also tried "help(PACKAGES)", "help(install.packages())", > but none worked. Anybody can help? I am running R 1.1.1 on WinNT 4. > > Thanks a lot. > > Best, > Shige Song > Department of Sociology, UCLA > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Shige Song wrote:> > Dear All, > > I am trying to fiugre out how install packages on the base system. The > "FAQ" tells me that more details can be obtained by typing > "help(install.packages)", but my R system gives me an error message when > I did that. I also tried "help(PACKAGES)", "help(install.packages())", > but none worked. Anybody can help? I am running R 1.1.1 on WinNT 4.1. Looks like you didn't install one (or more) of the archives, which contain help pages, e.g. (from the readme): rw1011h.zip text help rw1011ch.zip compiled HTML help rw1011w.zip HTML help files [I suppose, you have installed the binary distribution for WinNT, available at CRAN.] Have a look into the "R for Windows FAQ, section 2.2". 2. Installing additional packages. a) It is possible to install additional packages using install.packages(). b) For windows there are binary releases of many packages available at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/windows-NT/contrib/ You might want to install those packages using the installer rwinst.exe. Have a look into the "R for Windows FAQ, section 3.1". Uwe Ligges Uwe Ligges -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._