I saw a thread from September 24 in which Duncan Temple Lang told us:
- The package currently has no Rd files, but there is a brief "user's
guide". The package is available from
http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs
I could not find it by using Tinn-R or RGui's package install tool.
Then when I went to the website I saw that package is only available
as
http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs/RGoogleDocs_0.1-0.tar.gz
To my knowledge tar.gz is only for Linux. Does this mean that I cannot
run it on a windows machine. Please tell me that there is a way to run
it on a Windows machine.
Farrel Buchinsky
GrandCentral Tel: (412) 567-7870
Hello, You can probably extract a .tar.gz using 7zip on Windows. Regards, Gustavo. On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Farrel Buchinsky <fjbuch at gmail.com> wrote:> I saw a thread from September 24 in which Duncan Temple Lang told us: > - The package currently has no Rd files, but there is a brief "user's > guide". The package is available from > http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs > > I could not find it by using Tinn-R or RGui's package install tool. > Then when I went to the website I saw that package is only available > as > http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs/RGoogleDocs_0.1-0.tar.gz > > To my knowledge tar.gz is only for Linux. Does this mean that I cannot > run it on a windows machine. Please tell me that there is a way to run > it on a Windows machine. > > Farrel Buchinsky > GrandCentral Tel: (412) 567-7870 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. >
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Farrel Buchinsky wrote:> I saw a thread from September 24 in which Duncan Temple Lang told us: > - The package currently has no Rd files, but there is a brief "user's > guide". The package is available from > http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs > > I could not find it by using Tinn-R or RGui's package install tool. > Then when I went to the website I saw that package is only available > as > http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs/RGoogleDocs_0.1-0.tar.gz > > To my knowledge tar.gz is only for Linux. Does this mean that I cannot > run it on a windows machine. Please tell me that there is a way to run > it on a Windows machine.Yes, you can install source packages on Windows: the R-admin manual gives you a detailed guide to the tools that you will need to do so. It even tells you about an automated package building service you could try. RGoogleDocs depends on RCurl and XML, both of which I provide Windows binaries for (and are much trickier to install because of their external software requirements).> Farrel Buchinsky > GrandCentral Tel: (412) 567-7870-- 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
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Farrel Buchinsky <fjbuch at gmail.com> wrote:> I reinstalled from a binary that Duncan Temple Lang placed in omegahat. I > see that omegahat has a subdirectory for each version of R. There is not a > directory for 2.10. I took the liberty of taking it from the 2.9 directory.That explains the warning message.> Who knows what crime I?committed. Is that first or third degree murder.Well, it's just a warning-- so it shouldn't be a show-stopper. And from what I see the warning is only referring to the package help pages, which are available online. It looks like the functionality of the package should still work just fine if you don't want to bother with a reinstall.> I saw however that there is a far more recent version of RGoogleDocs (Last > Release:?0.4-0?(27 Oct 2009)). But it is in tar.gz. I assume that it is in > source. Once before I spent about 27000 hours getting a source to become a > binary. I don't know how I finally got it right and am reluctant to wander > into that swamp again. > Farrel BuchinskyThis shouldn't be extraordinarily difficult-- unfortunately Murphy's Law does come into play sometimes. But it should just be a matter of: install.packages( "RGoogleDocs", repos="http://www.omegahat.org/R", type="source" ) And that's it for Linux, Mac OS or other UNIX-based system. With Windows you will first have to install the toolset available at: http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ Grab the "Rtools210" installer as you are using R 2.10.x. Install using the "Package Authoring" option and make sure you check any options that ask about modifying your PATH. Good luck! -Charlie