[R] Problem with installing "genetics" package

Juliet Hannah
Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:11:51 -0000

I just installed it, and it worked fine.

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] genetics_1.3.4 mvtnorm_0.9-9  MASS_7.3-4     gtools_2.6.1
gdata_2.7.1    combinat_0.0-7

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.10.1

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:21 PM,  <myrmail at earthlink.net>
wrote:
>
> I have tried to install the "genetics" package and am getting and
error.
> The log is below. For information, I am using R 2.10.1 on the Windows
> XP operating system. The mirror site I'm using is Michigan
Technological
> University.
>
> Your help in this matter will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Murray M Cooper, PhD
> Richland Statistics
> 9800 North 24th St
> Richland, MI, USA 49083
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Log from attempted install:
>
>> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
> also installing the dependencies ?combinat?, ?gdata?, ?gtools?, ?mvtnorm?
>
> trying URL
'http://cran.mtu.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.10/combinat_0.0-7.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 25623 bytes (25 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 25 Kb
>
> trying URL
'http://cran.mtu.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.10/gdata_2.7.1.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 817994 bytes (798 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 798 Kb
>
> trying URL
'http://cran.mtu.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.10/gtools_2.6.1.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 91801 bytes (89 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 89 Kb
>
> trying URL
'http://cran.mtu.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.10/mvtnorm_0.9-9.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 202656 bytes (197 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 197 Kb
>
> trying URL
'http://cran.mtu.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.10/genetics_1.3.4.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 303230 bytes (296 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 296 Kb
>
> package 'combinat' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> package 'gdata' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Error in normalizePath(path) :
> ?path[1]="C:\Program Files\R\R-2.10.1\library/gdata": The system
cannot find the file specified
>>
>
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