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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 Everyone, I have a few fairly basic questions about upgrading and installing R packages. First off, I am using Ubuntu Hardy Heron and have R 2.7.1 installed and working perfectly. I usually access R via Emacs ESS interface which I am still trying to get the hang of. My questions and issues are as follows: Question 1: I started R and wanted to upgrade the installed R packages. So, I issue the

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 = "/"),

I am moving from windoze on a Dell laptop to Debian but I seem to have hit a snag for R. I managed to find the information to point an /etc/apt/sources.list entry at my local CRAN repository and have installed R 2.13.1 for squeeze from the Bristol UK repository. I installed a number of the additional R packages using synaptic which reported no errors but when I run my first

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

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 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 <-

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

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

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 R users: I got the following message when I use the pixmap library on R 1.7.0 over w2K platform (on R 1.6.2 it runs right). pixmapGrey(matrix(c(0,1),128,128)) Error in .class1(object) : Object "from" not found I download the library .zip file from: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.7/pixmap_0.3-2.zip Other question: When I try to "Install package(s) from

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

Full_Name: Gregory L. Blevins Version: 1.8 OS: Windows 2000 Submission from: (NULL) (65.29.54.28) I see this when I open 1.8 Error in grep("united.states", Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE"), TRUE) : 5 arguments passed to "grep" which requires 6. R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team Version 1.8.0 alpha (2003-09-18) R is free software and comes with

1. Could it be that your computer is behind a firewall? If so, try reading the R for Windows FAQ. 2. Please ask R-related question on R-help instead of S-news. Andy > From: cheng wu > > Hi, Andy > > Thank you for your answer. > > Why I can't load CRAN packages? > > the error message is: > > > {a <- CRAN.packages() > +

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 All: I tried to update the package mgcv from my current version 1.1-8 to mgcv version 1.2. Using the command update.packages("mgcv") to update mgcv failed in my computer and the returning message was: "Error in old.packages(lib.loc=lib.loc, contriburl=contriburl, method=method, :no installed.packages for (?invalid) lib.loc=mgcv" When I typed installed.packages(), I got

Hi , there: I used function source to download the package but found > source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R") Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning message: unable to resolve 'www.bioconductor.org'. Then I downloaded the packages from CRAN and found > local({a <- CRAN.packages() +

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

Hello All, I'm getting this error (Version: 1.9.0-1 on a debian system) > update.packages("mgcv") trying URL `ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/cran/src/contrib/PACKAGES' ftp data connection made, file length 169516 bytes opened URL .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........

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