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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

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. >

Wish to install a local source package on Un*x platform from within R. Same thing as I can accomplish from cmdline as $ export R_LIBS=~/R/library $ cd /path/to/pkg $ R CMD INSTALL -l $R_LIBS <pkgname> So, how do you go about this anyway? And isn't this a bug in 'install.packages'? ------- $ R R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 1.9.0

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.

Here are the error messages: > install.packages('plotrix') Warning in install.packages("plotrix") : argument 'lib' is missing: using '/Users/dbae/Library/R/library' --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Error in .install.macbinary(pkgs = pkgs, lib = lib, contriburl = contriburl, : unable to create temporary directory

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

See below. gs. Error in browse.pkgs("CRAN", "binary") : couldn't find function "avaliable.packages" Your version of R is up to date > browse.pkgs function (repos = getOption("repos"), contriburl = contrib.url(repos, type), type = getOption("pkgType")) { if (.Platform$GUI != "AQUA") stop("this function

Full_Name: Michael Spiegel Version: 2.10 OS: Windows Vista Submission from: (NULL) (76.104.24.156) The following error is produced when attempting to call install.packages. Here is the results of the traceback: > source('http://openmx.psyc.virginia.edu/getOpenMx.R') Error in f(res) : invalid subscript type 'list' > traceback() 7: f(res) 6: available.packages(contriburl =

Hi, I am unable to install packages on my R 2.12.0 Windows 7 machine. Here are the relevant lines: sessionInfo() R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15) Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

Dear all I can not understand how to install the package lpsolve_1.1.9.zip I have read the FAQ and the help pages carefully, but it still not clear for me. I have tried the following (and obtained the respective error messages): >install.packages("c:/ProgramFiles/R/rw2011/library/lpSolve_1.1.9",destdir=" c:/ProgramFiles/R/rw2011/library/lpSolve") Mensagem de aviso:

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

Hi, I am having trouble installing a previous version of a package, and multiple version of the package in R 2.12 or 2.15. I have download the tar.gz packages from the CRAN archive, and created an folder holding all the files. install.packages("changepoint_0.3.tar.gz", lib="~/Rtools/dir/of/pkgs/", repos=NULL, dependencies=FALSE,

I met today a computer crash and our maintenance officer had to reinstall some components of the OS (MS Windows XP Pro) as well as the Internet browser (among other things). Now, I cannot install packages from a distant repository: > utils:::menuInstallPkgs() Error in .readRDS(pfile) : unknown input format > traceback() 5: .readRDS(pfile) 4: .packages(all.available = TRUE) 3:

Dear r-helpers, I can't get lsa to run because: > library(lsa) Loading required package: Rstem Error in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc) : 'Rstem' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0? In addition: Warning message: cannot create HTML package index in: make.packages.html() > install.packages('Rstem') Warning in

Hi, I am trying to install the misc3d package on a Windows (XP) installation of R 2.0.1 using install.packages("misc3d") but with no success. I have used this approach with other packages OK, but for misc3d I get the following output... trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/PACKAGES' Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 27996 bytes

I try to type this in my R-winEdt. but I got these. Do you know? Aimin > install.packages('http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/plotrix_2.1-6.zip') Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, : no package 'http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/plotrix_2.1-6.zip' at the

Yesterday, I installed R2.2.0 for Windows [Version 2.2.0 (2005-10-06 r35749)]. Unfortunately, 'install.packages("Matrix")' produced the following message: Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, : no package 'Matrix' at the repositories I installed lme4, maps, mapproj, CircStats, scatterplot3d, gregmisc, Hmisc without

I have escaped Splus for Windows (mostly) and have started using R (v 2.3.1 on i686 redhat). Installing packages has been routine except for "sp" (classes and methods for spatial data). I get the following error message > install.packages("sp") Warning in download.packages(unique(pkgs),destdir=tmpd,available=available,: no package 'sp' at the

Thanks a lot for your help! Obviously I've tried to load it before by using the install.packages function but it didn't work. This is what I got > install.packages("mvtnorm") trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.7/PACKAGES' Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 12485 bytes opened URL downloaded 12Kb Warning message: No package

Trying to install the Matrix package with install.packages fails for me on Linux, it is trying to fetch the wrong version 0.99-4, downloading the tgz which is 0.99-6 and using R CMD INSTALL works fine The output from the failed install was > install.packages(c("Matrix")) trying URL 'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/src/contrib/Matrix_0.99-4.tar.gz' Error in