Hi,
I have a source package that isn't available as a windows zip file. Can
anyone explain to me how I can install this on my windows R platform?
When I use the following code:
install.packages("PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz", type = "source")
I get this error message:
* installing *source* package 'PReMiuM' ...
** libs
*** arch - i386
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'PReMiuM'
* removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.1/library/PReMiuM'
Warning messages:
1: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.1/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL
-l
"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.1\library"
"PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz"' had status
1
2: In install.packages("PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz", type =
"source") :
installation of package ?PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz? had non-zero exit
status >
Thanks for any help anyone can give me,
Lucy
Zsurzsa Laszlo
2013-Jul-08 08:29 UTC
[R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows
have you checked the bit version !? Which R do you use? 32 or 64 bit? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - László-András Zsurzsa, - - Msc. Infromatics, Technical University Munich, - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Lucy Leigh <Lucy.Leigh@newcastle.edu.au>wrote:> Hi, > I have a source package that isn't available as a windows zip file. Can > anyone explain to me how I can install this on my windows R platform? > When I use the following code: > install.packages("PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz", type = "source") > > > I get this error message: > > > > * installing *source* package 'PReMiuM' ... > ** libs > > *** arch - i386 > ERROR: compilation failed for package 'PReMiuM' > * removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.1/library/PReMiuM' > Warning messages: > 1: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.1/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l > "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.1\library" "PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz"' had status > 1 > 2: In install.packages("PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz", type = "source") : > installation of package ‘PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit > status > > > > Thanks for any help anyone can give me, > Lucy > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@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. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Berend Hasselman
2013-Jul-08 08:38 UTC
[R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows
On 08-07-2013, at 02:15, "Lucy Leigh" <Lucy.Leigh at newcastle.edu.au> wrote:> Hi, > I have a source package that isn't available as a windows zip file. Can > anyone explain to me how I can install this on my windows R platform? > When I use the following code: > install.packages("PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz", type = "source") > >Where did you get that version from? CRAN has version 3.0.20 and that is available as a binary Windows package (.zip). As for the error message: you have to have Rtools installed to compile source packages. Berend> I get this error message: > > > > * installing *source* package 'PReMiuM' ... > ** libs > > *** arch - i386 > ERROR: compilation failed for package 'PReMiuM' > * removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.1/library/PReMiuM' > Warning messages: > 1: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.1/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l > "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.1\library" "PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz"' had status > 1 > 2: In install.packages("PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz", type = "source") : > installation of package ?PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz? had non-zero exit > status >> > > Thanks for any help anyone can give me, > Lucy > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
Prof Brian Ripley
2013-Jul-08 08:46 UTC
[R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows
On 08/07/2013 01:15, Lucy Leigh wrote:> Hi, > I have a source package that isn't available as a windows zip file. Can > anyone explain to me how I can install this on my windows R platform?I am surprised that is all you saw, but running Rcmd INSTALL PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz at a shell command line should show you more. Note that version 3.0.20 does install on Windows: see http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_PReMiuM.html . But it does need BOOSTLIB set to your local boost installation (and I suspect you do not have one). The suggests that using the winbuilder service might well work. Package-specific questions are best addressed to the maintainer.> When I use the following code: > install.packages("PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz", type = "source") > > > I get this error message: > > > > * installing *source* package 'PReMiuM' ... > ** libs > > *** arch - i386 > ERROR: compilation failed for package 'PReMiuM' > * removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.1/library/PReMiuM' > Warning messages: > 1: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.1/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l > "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.1\library" "PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz"' had status > 1 > 2: In install.packages("PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz", type = "source") : > installation of package ?PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz? had non-zero exit > status >> > > Thanks for any help anyone can give me, > Lucy > > ______________________________________________ > 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. >-- 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
Hi everyone, Thanks to everyone for all the advice. I should have been clearer in my first email, the version of 'PReMiuM' I have is not the one available on CRAN at the moment, but a version I was sent by one of the authors, Silvia Liveriani, with a small bug fixed. I don't know if this is the same as the next version to be released, or whether the next will be different again. I asked about compiling it myself because I didn't want to bother the authors again if doing so was going to be a simple task I could do myself, which I now realise is not the case. I think the best option seems to me to be to contact the authors again and request permission to send the version to winbuilder to be compiled for me. Thank you also Bill Dunlap for your detailed instructions on how to use RTools, I am sure this will come in handy for me in the future too, and I appreciate you taking the time to write it all out for me. Regards, Lucy Leigh>>> Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> 12/07/2013 6:03 am >>>On 11/07/2013 20:21, David Winsemius wrote:> > On Jul 11, 2013, at 1:37 AM, Rolf Turner wrote: > >> On 11/07/13 17:57, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>> On 11/07/2013 01:22, David Winsemius wrote: >>>> >>>> On Jul 10, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Lucy Leigh wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> I have had a look at the manual but it makes no sense to me. I have >>>>> downloaded RTools, and the InnoSetup, >>>>> but I don't understand how to use these to install my package? Am I >>>>> meant to be writing commands >>>>> in R itself, or in these other things I've downloaded? >>>> >>>> Since you are clearly out of your league with respect to compiling from source, now is the time to ask (again), why are you not installing the binary package? >>>> >>>> At the R command line just type: >>>> >>>> install.packages("PReMiuM") # should default to type="win.binary" and use a CRAN mirror >>>> >>> >>> Or as she seems to want to use a later version than on CRAN, to ask again why she does not use winbuilder. >>> >>> >> But the winbuilder web page explicitly says: >> >>> Please do not upload packages of other maintainers (particularly not without changing the Maintainer field to your own e-mail address, if you have permissions to do that), because the maintainer indicated in the maintainer field of the DESCRIPTION file get response from us. Please do not upload BioConductor packages or CRAN packages. Both BioConductor and CRAN do have build systems. If BioConductor or CRAN packages are not available for Windows, there is a certainly a reason and also this service won't be able to build the package properly. >> >> So it would appear that it is *not* advisable for Ms. Leigh to use winbuilder. > > I read that paragraph as saying that if a specific package , i.e. a particular numbered version, is already on CRAN or the BioC server, then do not duplicate effort. Also do not submit if a CRAN compilation resulted in an error. Especially in light of Prof. Ripley's (reiterated) advice, I did not read it as saying that a pre-release update to an existing package should not be submitted (after suitable alterations of the DESCRIPTION file.)You read correctly, and indeed this is what the R manuals and the rw-FAQ say. This is all assuming that Lucy does have Silvia's (the author of PReMiuM) permission, but given that she has a unreleased version, that seems eminently reasonable. I am CCing Uwe Ligges (the provider of the winbuilder service) in case he wants to expand the statement. Although winbuilder does not have a large capacity, new hardware was acquired fairly recently and it is not as hard-pressed as it was. In the particular case of PReMiuM compiling is tricky (it needs the right version of Boost). And because we've been here before, I know that winbuilder has a suitable version of Boost. An alternative would be for Silvia to submit that version to winbuilder and send the link to Lucy to download. -- 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