[R] Installing an Archived Package

Evguenia Ignatova
2018-05-16T17:11:28Z

Hello Michael and Duncan,

Thank you for your pointers. The file downloaded without the ?gz? extension to
my R working directory folder as a ?tar? file. I did not unpack the file. I
tried renaming the file and running the code with ?gz? added - please see below.

> install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz", repos=NULL,
type="source")
Warning: invalid package ?/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz?
Error: ERROR: no packages specified
Warning message:
In install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type =
"source") :
  installation of package ?/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz? had non-zero exit status

IBM support is pretty much useless as they do not offer support to students (I
am a graduate student) and redirect me to the forums when I call them. I posted
in their support forum once and no one ever responds.

However, based on the SPSS add-on instructions, it is clear that I need a
specific version of R. I do not logically see another alternative to installing
the package for this version of R. I am very confused as to why the standard
procedures for installing an R package are not working for the archived version
of this package.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks again,
Evguenia


> On May 16, 2018, at 12:33 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at
gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 16/05/2018 11:24 AM, Evguenia Ignatova wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am having difficulty installing the most recent compatible version of
the ?polycor" package (0.7-8), for R 3.2.1 on my Mac. Here is the package
source page: https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/
<https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/>.
>> This version of R is necessary for the R Essentials for the IBM
Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) extension. I found this thread on
the problem
(http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-polycor-package-td4726101.html
<http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-polycor-package-td4726101.html>)
but it does not offer much help as my SPSS version will not recognize the most
recent versions of R.
>
> I'd suggest contacting IBM for support.
>
>> The polycor package is not available in the repository of R 3.2.1. Here
is the code I tried to install the package from the archive and the errors I
received:
>>> install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar", repos=NULL,
type="source")
>> Warning: invalid package ?/polycor_0.7-8.tar?
>
> As Michael said, you shouldn't unpack the tar.gz file.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>> Error: ERROR: no packages specified
>> Warning message:
>> In install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar", repos = NULL, type
= "source") :
>>   installation of package ?/polycor_0.7-8.tar? had non-zero exit status
>>>
install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz",
repos=NULL, type="source")
>> Error in download.file(p, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...)
:
>>   unsupported URL scheme
>> Any ideas for other alternatives would be greatly appreciated. Thank
you for your time!
>> Best,
>> Evguenia
>> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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On May 16, 2018, at 12:29 PM, Michael Dewey <lists at dewey.myzen.co.uk>
wrote:

Dear Evguenia

What happens if you manually download the version you want and run
install.packages() on that file? Your first attempt is on a .tar file not on the
tar.gz file in the archive, not sure if that makes a difference.

Michael

On 16/05/2018 16:24, Evguenia Ignatova wrote:
> Hello,
> I am having difficulty installing the most recent compatible version of the
?polycor" package (0.7-8), for R 3.2.1 on my Mac. Here is the package
source page: https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/
<https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/>.
> This version of R is necessary for the R Essentials for the IBM Statistical
Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) extension. I found this thread on the problem
(http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-polycor-package-td4726101.html
<http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-polycor-package-td4726101.html>)
but it does not offer much help as my SPSS version will not recognize the most
recent versions of R.
> The polycor package is not available in the repository of R 3.2.1. Here is
the code I tried to install the package from the archive and the errors I
received:
>> install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar", repos=NULL,
type="source")
> Warning: invalid package ?/polycor_0.7-8.tar?
> Error: ERROR: no packages specified
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar", repos = NULL, type =
"source") :
>   installation of package ?/polycor_0.7-8.tar? had non-zero exit status
>>
install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz",
repos=NULL, type="source")
> Error in download.file(p, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   unsupported URL scheme
> Any ideas for other alternatives would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
for your time!
> Best,
> Evguenia
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> 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.

--
Michael