R help - Mar 2009 - installing contributed programs

Dear R-help,

I'm sure this is contained within the documentation, but I have not yet
located
it (with good effort nonetheless). I am attempting to install the binary for
randomForests. After unpacking the zip, I extracted the contents to
my R-2.8.1 folder. However, when I try to execute the command
library(randomForest) I get an unable to locate error. Is there another
library request that needs to be made? I see that the zip extraction created
the RandomForest folder under the R-2.8.1 folder. Is there a way to
specify this location within the library command?

Thanks for your help,
David

Hi

r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 26.03.2009 15:11:32:
> Dear R-help,
> 
> I'm sure this is contained within the documentation, but I have not yet
located
> it (with good effort nonetheless). I am attempting to install the binary 
for
> randomForests. After unpacking the zip, I extracted the contents to
> my R-2.8.1 folder. However, when I try to execute the command
> library(randomForest) I get an unable to locate error. Is there another
> library request that needs to be made? I see that the zip extraction 
created
> the RandomForest folder under the R-2.8.1 folder. Is there a way to
It shall be in /library subfolder of your R -2.8.1 main directory. If it 
is not, just copy it there.

Regards
Petr


> specify this location within the library command?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> David
> 
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On 3/26/2009 10:11 AM, David Covell wrote:
> Dear R-help,
> 
> I'm sure this is contained within the documentation, but I have not yet
located
> it (with good effort nonetheless). I am attempting to install the binary
for
> randomForests. After unpacking the zip, I extracted the contents to
> my R-2.8.1 folder. However, when I try to execute the command
> library(randomForest) I get an unable to locate error. Is there another
> library request that needs to be made? I see that the zip extraction
created
> the RandomForest folder under the R-2.8.1 folder. Is there a way to
> specify this location within the library command?
You should let R do the installation.  The easiest way on Windows (which 
is implied by the .zip extension on your binary, but you should have 
said...) is within the Rgui:  menu item "Packages|Install package(s) 
from local zip files" (or even better, install from CRAN).

Duncan Murdoch