[R] Need help installing qtoolbox

Prof Brian Ripley
Sat, 31 May 2003 07:39:54 -0000

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Toby Popenfoose wrote:

> I have windows version of R v1.6.2
>
> I have downloaded the qtoolbox.zip from
>  http://www.cmis.csiro.au/S-PLUS/qtoolbox/
>
> My R command line is
> > install.packages("C:/Program Files/R/qtoolbox.zip",
.libPaths()[1], CRAN > NULL)
>
> and I get the following error message:
> updating HTML package descriptions
> Warning message:
> error -1 in extracting from zip file
> >
>
> Is there another way to install this S-Plus based Package?

I presume it is a S-PLUS library section for S-PLUS 4.x. You wouldn't try
to install, say, a MATLAB toolbox, so why do you think an S-PLUS one would
work?

It is sometimes possible to port the sources of an S-PLUS library section
to sources for an R package, with considerable work.

> Is there another
> control chart library for R that I should be trying instead?

You seem to have `package' and `library' reversed in meaning.

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