Hi, I'm looking to create a few basic world maps in R (for Windows). A while back someone asked for the same thing and was referred to the (*.tar) files at: ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/pub/statistics/map/ which I downloaded. However, I am unable to install them, and clearly I'm not doing something properly (I'm your basic moron when it comes to installation, so please understand).>From what I can find, the FAQ stuff on the web siterelating to this doesn't seem to be relevant for windows. Anyhow, I used the drop down menu to load from a local zip file, it says it installs fine and updates html documentation, etc. But subsequently, it isn't listed on the list of packages and nothing has changed on the html help file. Is there something I need to do to the downloads before they'll load (I had this problem with other packages that I was ultimately able to install successfully directly from CRAN)? Also, are each of the files in the above directory part of the package, are they separate packages, etc. (the readme says some are unix, etc, but there are a bunch of files). Another question is on the Maps package itself. Someone posted message a while back indicating that the maps package is only available on unix. Is this accurate, or is there any more recent information? It wasn't clear to me if they were talking about the packages located at the site above or something else. Thanks for your patience and help, Brian __________________________________________________ Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
The package on that site is for unix type systems only. Several people have been working on porting this package to windows, but, unfortunately, the work is not finished yet. Anne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anne E. York National Marine Mammal Laboratory Seattle WA 98115-0070 USA e-mail: anne.york at noaa.gov Voice: +1 206-526-4039 Fax: +1 206-526-6615 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Brian Scholl wrote:>Hi, > >I'm looking to create a few basic world maps in R (for >Windows). A while back someone asked for the same >thing and was referred to the (*.tar) files at: >ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/pub/statistics/map/ >which I downloaded. > >However, I am unable to install them, and clearly I'm >not doing something properly (I'm your basic moron >when it comes to installation, so please understand). >From what I can find, the FAQ stuff on the web site >relating to this doesn't seem to be relevant for >windows. Anyhow, I used the drop down menu to load >from a local zip file, it says it installs fine and >updates html documentation, etc. But subsequently, it >isn't listed on the list of packages and nothing has >changed on the html help file. Is there something I >need to do to the downloads before they'll load (I had >this problem with other packages that I was ultimately >able to install successfully directly from CRAN)? > >Also, are each of the files in the above directory >part of the package, are they separate packages, etc. >(the readme says some are unix, etc, but there are a >bunch of files). > >Another question is on the Maps package itself. >Someone posted message a while back indicating that >the maps package is only available on unix. Is this >accurate, or is there any more recent information? It >wasn't clear to me if they were talking about the >packages located at the site above or something else. > >Thanks for your patience and help, > >Brian > >__________________________________________________ > >Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! > >-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- >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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Anne York wrote:> The package on that site is for unix type systems only. Several people have > been working on porting this package to windows, but, unfortunately, the > work is not finished yet. >My understanding is that the port is awaiting testing, but that there are some unresolved licensing issues with some of the source code. There is what might be called a beta test package available from ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/pub/statistics/map/.maptest.tar.gz. This has been tested on a Unix system but is yet to be fully tested on a Windows system. You are welcome to try. It is a source package, so you need to have the appropriate compilers, and it does not contain the projection code which is the code for which there remain potential licensing issues. [The projection code in the S maps package came straight from 10th Edition Unix.] Ray Brownrigg -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._