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Dear R users, I'm starting to get acquainted with R. I've been reading the manual, and I understood that if I wanted to install a user written package on R, I could do it directly from the Internet, by typing the line install.packages("quantreg") in an R session. To my surprise this command did not work, nor did the command "update packages from CRAN..." from the menu

Greetings, I am trying to use install.packages obtained from here http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/install.packages.html My computer has these OS: 64-bit blfs linux R2.15.1 #------------ A) I did the following:- export DIR=/home/stats/R-2.15.0_runTEST190712A export DEST=/home/stats/Rtester cd $DEST ${DIR}/bin/R install.packages(MASS_7.3-17.tar.gz, ${DEST}, repos =

O/S: Linux R version : 2.2.1 The R server doesn't have http internet access. And the sys admins will not install the R libraries that I requested. So I have downloaded the packages that I want to intall and have moved them into my home directory on the server. These are a series of *.tar.gz files. I want to install the R libraries in my home directory, but I can't get it to work.

Dear list members, I can't figure out how to specify the contriburl argument to install.packages() properly when the packages to be installed are in a directory on my local machine. I have in mind a command something like install.packages(missing.packages, contriburl=directory, lib=.libPaths()[1]) Where missing.packages is a character vector of package names (without versions) and

Dear all, I am working with MS Windows XP Pro (latest update) and a pre-compiled version of R: > version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 1 minor 8.1 year 2003 month 11 day 21 language R I meet a strange problem with install.packages and update.packages (called from the menu), that did not occur until

Hi, I'm new to R. Apologies if this is a simple query, I've searched the mailing lists and docs but can't find a solution to my problem. I'm trying to make some packages available on our intranet. During development the 'intranet' is a webserver running on localhost. * When I call "install.packages" I get a mesage about not being able to access 'index

> Dear Sirs , > Today I've downloaded the last release of the R-Program (I an a novel user). I am interested on performing time series analysys (regression,ARIMA,ARCH) to some data-sets, therefore I would like to use some of the packages of R-Contributors (like the tseries one).When I try to install or update packages from CRAN the following text always appear: > > local({a <-

I realize that others have struggled with this issue...i.e. http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/05/01/9826.html i am on os.x 10.4 w/ R2.2, and am (perhaps foolishly) also on this quest... i would like to be able to install downloaded source (tar.gz'd) files from within an R session, and have it work in a X-platform way..i am often not connected to the internet and have libraries

Running R.2.11.1, debian linux, I tried to update.packages as root within R and get errors for cairoDevice and latticeExtra I don't know how to fix. For cairoDevice, I don't know what gtk+2.0 is; for latticeExtra, I'm surprised that R cannot find RColorBrewer built for R 2.10+ What to do? > old.packages() Package LibPath Installed Built

Hello, everybody I have R 2.5.1 now installed on a laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium. I have problems updating the packages. Here is what I get at the prompt when I try to update: > update.packages(ask='graphics') --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- trying URL 'http://cran.ch.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.5/car_1.2-2.zip' Content type

I'm trying to update my Matrix package given the update last night. But the following error is generated. I've tried restarting R and deleting my old Matrix package. Can anyone suggest how this might be resolved? > install.packages('Matrix') trying URL 'http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.1/Mat rix_0.98-1.zip' Content type

Full_Name: Xiong Guanglei Version: 1.8.1 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (202.38.103.50) qnorm(x) when x>1.0

Windows 2000, R 1.6.1 When I try use the menu to download and install new packages, the result looks like this: {a <- CRAN.packages() + install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], available=a)} trying URL `[1]http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"),

Dear R users, I am using R Version 1.3.0 (2001-06-22) under Windows 2000 Professional (SP 2). When I try "Packages"->"Update packages from CRAN" the result is something like trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org'. Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES",

Hi! I am new to R. I want to install "packages" from Package Sources in the web. I follow the instruction and use the "install.packages" but no luck. Here is what I did: > install.packages(gss,"C:/R/rw1021/library", CRAN = options("CRAN"), contriburl = contrib.url("http://cran.r-project.org"),

Dear all, I would need some advice as I am a beginner in CentOS. The question is as follows: How to set up timing if NTP was block by ISP? I have try many way such as link the timezone , getting from the hardware clock.However , it is not the solution. Please advice. -- Regards, Ku Wei Xiong 0166365831

Hi, What is the best text editor for programming in R? I am using JEdit as the text editor, however, it does not have anything specific for R. It will be nice to have a developing environment where the keywords are highlighted, plus some other debugging functions. Yi-Xiong [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi I have been trawling the web, FAQs, and R manuals for help on the following issue, but have failed and was wondering if anyone has a solution to the following problem: After having installed R 2.6.2 for Windows (binary), I tried to install various packages. Every time I try loading a package (any package) via the built-in menu, I run into the following error message. >

Full_Name: Xiong Guanglei Version: 1.8.1 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (202.38.103.50) > as.matrix(1:10,nrow=1) Error in as.matrix(1:10, nrow = 1) : unused argument(s) (nrow ...)

It was suggested to me that, although I've installed version 1.3.0 of R, the contained foreign package won't be the most recent. Hence, it's worth using update.package(). However, when I did that, I got the following log file: > options(CRAN="http://cran.us.r-project.org/") > update.packages() trying URL