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Hi There is something weird going on with the "tree" package version 1.0-16. So I want to download an updated tree package. I found that R website has version 1.0-18. I want to try this one and see how the tree algorithm is performing. What is the best way to download tree package version 1.0-18 which can be found in index of src/contrib at www.r-project.org? So far I tried two different

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

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

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. >

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:

Full_Name: Jari Oksanen Version: R 2.1.0 OS: MacOS 10.3.9 Submission from: (NULL) (130.231.102.145) For various reasons (which need not be expanded here) I have tried to update my long neglected R in MacOS X using handy command line tool update.packages() using readily available binaries of contributed packages at CRAN. However, this fails with message saying that packages xxxx_*_tar.gz is not

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.

Message 2 of today: it works now. After re-installing R.app from the same R-2.1.0.dmg file, and fixInNamespace'ing(*) install.packages(), I managed to update 23 outdated packages from CRAN binaries for MacOS X. What I did was to: 1. change call to .install.macbinaries() into call to install.binaries() in install.packages(). install.binaries() is a function defined utils/R/aqua/GUI.R. 2. I

Recently I tried to install a package in R version 1.8.1 for Windows. First I un".tar.gz"ed it and ".zip"ed it back in to be able to use the option Install package(s) from local zip files... Unfortunately tis error message appeared: Error in unpackPkg(pkgs[i], pkgnames[i], lib, installWithVers) : Malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field It's

Full_Name: Fred J. Version: 1.8.1 OS: windows 2000 Submission from: (NULL) (203.26.24.216) platform i386-pc-mingw32 the error can be duplicated as follows > rt <- data.frame(8:15, 7:14, 6:13, 5:12, 4:11, 3:10, 2:9, 1:8) > library(fdim) > FD <- (fdim(rt,q=2)) Error in slopeopt(AllPoints, Alpha) : Object "LineP" not found

Hello I am getting this Error in slopeopt(AllPoints, Alpha) : Object "LineP" not found when the dim(<data.frame>) of the data matrix for which the fdim is being calculated hits a certain values depending on the data set. e.g print(dim(mat)) fd <- fdim(mat,q=2) [1] 2743 2 [1] 2742 3 [1] 2741 4 [1] 2740 5 [1] 2739 6 [1] 2738 7 [1] 2737 8 [1] 2736 9 [1] 2735

Brian Yandell <byandell@wisc.edu> writes: > Folks, > I am working on a Windows system which is part of the UW-Madison > statistics LAN. R is maintained on a file system to which I cannot write. > I tried installing a package and got the following interplay: Set the lib argument to install.packages to a directory in which you do have write permissions. From ?install.packages

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,

Hi, I?m new to R but I?m interested in using the fdim package to find the fractal dimension of a dataset. I downloaded the the package from https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/fdim/ and successfully installed it together with xgobi. However, when I try to run the first example, after df <- fdim(mydata,q=0,Alpha=0.3) I get the following error: Error in .C("pointdif",

R users, I recently upgraded (?) to Windows XP from 2000. I am trying to build an R package. I have done this many times on my old system and I am not sure why it is not working in XP. To build the package I call a bat file that specifies all the necessary paths -- but the "build" file (which appears to be a perl script) is looking for a "src" subdirectory in the src

Hello, I wrote an R function and want to build an R package on winXP. I have set my path:C:\bin;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\Perl\bin\;C:\Tcl\bin;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\Program Files\R\rw1081\bin; I tried to run "Rcmd build --help" but failed. Under C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe, I got the error message: Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory. Under Cygwin, I got the error message:

Hi all, I am wondering if anyone has problem installing 'knncat' package. I tried to install using 'Rcmd INSTALL knncat_1.1.1.tar.gz', error message appeared. I attached the message in the end. I allso tried to install from RGui, but it was not listed. Thanks in advance. Regards, jenny ---------- Making package knncat ------------ adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION

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've just tried to run example-3 from Friedrich Leish. I'm using R 1.8.1 and MiKTeX 2.2 on Windows XP. I go === > library(tools) > Sweave("example-3.Snw") Writing to file example-3.tex Processing code chunks ... 1 : term hide 2 : echo term verbatim 3 : term tex 4 : term verbatim eps pdf You can now run LaTeX on example-3.tex === The file example-3.tex

Dear R-ers: Recognizing that it is better to remain silent and have people think you stupid than to speak and remove any doubt, I fear that I must speak nonetheless. I am having the Devil's own time trying to make a simple R package for my own use. Yes, I have perused the FAQs and searched the archives. Yes, I have read "Writing R Extensions" and eventually divined what Rcmd