Dear all, my apologies if I am posting a silly question - but I couldn't find any helpful information on this elswhere. In the R FAQ, version 1.8-1, there is a section "5.2 How can add-on packages be installed?", but it only gives information for Unix users. How can I install an add-on package under Windows? (Specifically, I have downloaded the "rmeta" package from CRAN.) Thanks for your help! Christian
You should be reading the R for Windows FAQ (rw-FAQ), which is under the "Help" menu on Rgui. Big hint: Look under the "Packages" menu in Rgui. Andy> From: Christian Gold [mailto:c.gold at magnet.at] > > Dear all, > > my apologies if I am posting a silly question - but I > couldn't find any helpful information on this elswhere. In > the R FAQ, version 1.8-1, there is a section "5.2 How can > add-on packages be installed?", but it only gives information > for Unix users. How can I install an add-on package under > Windows? (Specifically, I have downloaded the "rmeta" package > from CRAN.) > > Thanks for your help! > > Christian >
The command: install.packages() works for whatever platform. See ?install.packages If you youse windoes you can go to the top menu and under "Packages" you will finf "Install packages from CRAN" and "Install from local zip files" if you have aready downloaded the package use the second. On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Christian Gold wrote:> Dear all, > > my apologies if I am posting a silly question - but I couldn't find any > helpful information on this elswhere. > In the R FAQ, version 1.8-1, there is a section "5.2 How can add-on > packages be installed?", but it only gives information for Unix users. > How can I install an add-on package under Windows? (Specifically, I have > downloaded the "rmeta" package from CRAN.) > > Thanks for your help! > > Christian >Paulo Justiniano Ribeiro Jr Departamento de Estat?stica Universidade Federal do Paran? Caixa Postal 19.081 CEP 81.531-990 Curitiba, PR - Brasil Tel: (+55) 41 361 3471 Fax: (+55) 41 361 3141 e-mail: pj at est.ufpr.br http://www.est.ufpr.br/~paulojus
You look in the FAQ for R for Windows .... It's under HTML help, and file rw-FAQ in the top-level directory of the R installation. It's also mentioned in the FAQ you consulted, and linked from www.r-project.org (and BTW I think the R 1.6.0 Mac FAQ needs to be removed from there and replaced by the MacOS X one). On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Christian Gold wrote:> my apologies if I am posting a silly question - but I couldn't find any > helpful information on this elswhere. > In the R FAQ, version 1.8-1, there is a section "5.2 How can add-on > packages be installed?", but it only gives information for Unix users. > How can I install an add-on package under Windows? (Specifically, I have > downloaded the "rmeta" package from CRAN.)-- 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 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595