You probably need to get your users permissions (in win 7) set properly...
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:26 PM, radagast <haseeb.mahmud@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was trying to install a package called ei from this
> http://gking.harvard.edu/eiR link . With GCC, r-base-dev and some other R
> package dependencies installed it works perfect in my Ubuntu Linux system.
>
> Now I am trying to install the same in Windows 7 environment. So far my
> setup is as follows,
>
> 1. R installed in home folder (c:\Users\username\R-2.12.1\R. It is set to
> run as administrator, and the R folder is writable.
> 2. My working directory is (c:\Users\username\Documents)
> 3. Rtool is installed in (c:\Rtools)
>
> Having this setup,
>
> 4. I tried to install it by the command,
> install.packages("ei",repos="http://r.iq.harvard.edu")
> This command gives me the following error message.
>
>
>
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> Installing package(s) into ‘C:\Users\username\Documents/R/win-library/2.12’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
> package ‘ei’ is not available
>
>
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>
> After that I have decided to have a try to install it from a local zip
> file,
> so I proceeded in the following way,
>
>
> 5. I have downloaded the package ei_0.938.tar.gz, untar it and make a zip
> file from that. I placed it into my work directory.
> 6. I opened the terminal (Run > cmd), went to the work directory and
tried
> to run the command R COM INSTALL ei
>
>
>
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> It shows me the following error message,
> C:\Users\username\Documents>R COM INSTALL ei
> 'R' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
>
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>
> I am not sure what should I do now. Is there anyone to help?
>
>
> _ Rdgst.
>
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