R help - Oct 2003 - installing packages not on CRAN

Hi,

how to use install.packages to install SimpleR package of J. Verzani?

using install.packages with the CRAN packages is simple:

install.packages("ineq",contriburl="http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8",CRAN=NULL)

same with Simple package fails:

install.packages("Simple",contriburl="http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/Statistics/R/simpleR",CRAN=NULL)

since there is no file named PACKAGES.
My solution is:

path<-paste(getwd(),"simple.zip", sep="/")
download.file("http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/Statistics/R/simpleR/Simple_0.4.zip",path,mode="wb")
install.packages(path,CRAN=NULL)

Is there more elegant way to do this in Windows?

Vytautas Maniusis, Vilnius University, lithuania

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 vtas at uosis.mif.vu.lt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> how to use install.packages to install SimpleR package of J. Verzani?
> 
> using install.packages with the CRAN packages is simple:
> 
>
install.packages("ineq",contriburl="http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8",CRAN=NULL)
> 
> same with Simple package fails:
> 
>
install.packages("Simple",contriburl="http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/Statistics/R/simpleR",CRAN=NULL)
> 
> since there is no file named PACKAGES.
> My solution is:
> 
> path<-paste(getwd(),"simple.zip", sep="/")
>
download.file("http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/Statistics/R/simpleR/Simple_0.4.zip",path,mode="wb")
> install.packages(path,CRAN=NULL)
> 
> Is there more elegant way to do this in Windows?
Download the file and use the menu item to install it, if the above is too 
complicated for you.

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