similar to: Installing Packages

I am trying to install the package "tseries", I put the Folder "tseries" in the folder "Library". When entring "library(tseries)" in "R", I have got this warning message "the package contains no R Code". When trying to use the functions in the package "tseries", there is an error message "couldn't find function

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

> 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 <-

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 = "/"),

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

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

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

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

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

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 am trying to install packages, WHat i did is: options(CRAN= "http://cran.us.r-project.org/") install.packages("pakgs") However I got error message like: trying URL `http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"), : cannot open: HTTP status was `404' In

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. >

Hi all, my uni has recently switched to using a proxy (with password) for accessing Web pages outside the uni. I have since found that "update packages" etc no longer seem to work from R. I have tried to fix this problem in two ways:- 1) renaming internet2.dll to internet.dll in the "Modeules" folder and proceeding as usual. When I tried "update packages" from the

Hi I just upgraded my R from stabel/etch from 2.4.x to 2.6.2 via sudo apt-get install r-base which worked fine, installing all dependencies From R, as root, I did update.packages() but a number of packages packages failed to install, either for missing gfortran or missing dependencies. Warning messages: 1: In install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl =

To Whom It May Concern: I need to use various packages in R and I also want to use Textmate. Problem 1: Textmate doesn't seem to recognize the packages that are already installed on R. Problem 2: When I execute the following command: install.packages("ade4", repos="http://cran.r-project.org", contriburl = contrib.url(

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 =

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"),

I am setting up a new Ubuntu lucid system on a Dell Precision T3500, quad core, E5507, x86_64 box and am having some difficulty updating r-cran packages as per the instructions at http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu Perhaps the instructions are incomplete or wrong, or I've misunderstood something, and/or I've run into a dependency problem among r-cran- packages, vcd in

Hi all, The write_PACKAGES function has a 'fields' argument that allows a user generating a PACKAGES file to specify additional fields to include. For symmetry, it would be nice for the available.packages function to be able to read those extra fields when specified. Similarly, it would be useful for installed.packages to have a 'fields' argument. This would allow a user to

Hello all, I am running R 1.5.0 on a Pentium 4 1.5 GHz machine running Windows XP Professional. update.packages() doesn't work for me. For a while it goes quiet an then I get the following message: 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",