i'm trying to learn R. i have no programing experience. i tried to add on a package and just picked "yags". i can't get it to work or get any help. ---> install.packages("yags")Warning in install.packages("yags") : argument 'lib' is missing: using 'C:\Documents and Settings\j\My Documents/R/win-library/2.6' trying URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/yags_4.0-2.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 183779 bytes (179 Kb) opened URL downloaded 179 Kb package 'yags' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked The downloaded packages are in C:\Documents and Settings\j\Local Settings\Temp\RtmpXGE7rd\downloaded_packages updating HTML package descriptions --- then i tried: ---> help("yags")No documentation for 'yags' in specified packages and libraries: you could try 'help.search("yags")' --- help.search doesn't help. when i type library() the result says: --- Packages in library 'C:\Documents and Settings\j\My Documents/R/win-library/2.6': yags Yet Another GEE Solver Packages in library 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.0/library': base The R Base Package boot Bootstrap R (S-Plus) Functions (Canty) class Functions for Classification cluster Cluster Analysis Extended Rousseeuw et al. ... --- i've checked the Admin and Maint manual, but i'm stumped as to how to get yags to actually work. i copied and pasted the example from the html file in the yags folder and after every line that called yags, there was an error message that said: Error: could not find function "yags".
i'm trying to learn R. i have no programing experience. i tried to add on a package and just picked "yags". i can't get it to work or get any help. ---> install.packages("yags")Warning in install.packages("yags") : argument 'lib' is missing: using 'C:\Documents and Settings\j\My Documents/R/win-library/2.6' trying URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/yags_4.0-2.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 183779 bytes (179 Kb) opened URL downloaded 179 Kb package 'yags' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked The downloaded packages are in C:\Documents and Settings\j\Local Settings\Temp\RtmpXGE7rd\downloaded_packages updating HTML package descriptions --- then i tried: ---> help("yags")No documentation for 'yags' in specified packages and libraries: you could try 'help.search("yags")' --- help.search doesn't help. when i type library() the result says: --- Packages in library 'C:\Documents and Settings\j\My Documents/R/win-library/2.6': yags Yet Another GEE Solver Packages in library 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.0/library': base The R Base Package boot Bootstrap R (S-Plus) Functions (Canty) class Functions for Classification cluster Cluster Analysis Extended Rousseeuw et al. ... --- i've checked the Admin and Maint manual, but i'm stumped as to how to get yags to actually work. i copied and pasted the example from the html file in the yags folder and after every line that called yags, there was an error message that said: Error: could not find function "yags".
R distinguishes between "installing" and "loading" a package. It looks like your installation of yags went fine. Now type library(yags) to load the package. now help(yags) should bring up something, as should example(yags) .
> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of jpolo at mail.usf.edu > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:06 PM > To: r-help at r-project.org > Subject: [R] installing and using a package > > i'm trying to learn R. i have no programing experience. i > tried to add on > a package and just picked "yags". i can't get it to work or > get any help. > > --- > > install.packages("yags") > Warning in install.packages("yags") : > argument 'lib' is missing: using 'C:\Documents and Settings\j\My > Documents/R/win-library/2.6' > trying URL > 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/ya > gs_4.0-2.zip' > Content type 'application/zip' length 183779 bytes (179 Kb) > opened URL > downloaded 179 Kb > > package 'yags' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > The downloaded packages are in > C:\Documents and Settings\j\Local > Settings\Temp\RtmpXGE7rd\downloaded_packages > updating HTML package descriptions > --- > > then i tried: > > --- > > help("yags") > No documentation for 'yags' in specified packages and libraries: > you could try 'help.search("yags")' > --- > > help.search doesn't help. when i type library() the result says: > > --- > Packages in library 'C:\Documents and Settings\j\My > Documents/R/win-library/2.6': > > yags Yet Another GEE Solver > > Packages in library 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.0/library': > > base The R Base Package > boot Bootstrap R (S-Plus) Functions (Canty) > class Functions for Classification > cluster Cluster Analysis Extended > Rousseeuw et al. > ... > --- > > i've checked the Admin and Maint manual, but i'm stumped as > to how to get > yags to actually work. i copied and pasted the example from > the html file > in the yags folder and after every line that called yags, there was an > error message that said: > Error: could not find function "yags". > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >You need to read the "An Introduction to R" manual which was probably installed when you installed R on your un-named OS (Windows, I take it). You probably also want to read the posting-guide referenced at the bottom of the email. But to get you started, you need to load a package before using it. In your case library(yags) should get you started. Hope this is helpful, Dan Daniel J. Nordlund Research and Data Analysis Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Olympia, WA 98504-5204
>> -----Original Message-----> You need to read the "An Introduction to R" manual which was probably > installed when you installed R on your un-named OS (Windows, I take it).yes, i did find what i needed there. thanks you. john
> R distinguishes between "installing" and "loading" a package. It looks > like your installation of yags went fine. Now type > library(yags) > to load the package. > now help(yags) should bring up something, as should example(yags) .that helped. thank you john