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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. >

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

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 ...)