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Hi   I'm using R v2.8 under Windows*) and I'm trying to install a new package (local zip file), but I get the message below. I followed some advice at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html (4.2 onwards), but to no avail. How can I tell R to save the help files to an alternative location? I don't have write access to the default location.   >

=20 =20 I use the FEAR package available from=20 =20 http://www.clemson.edu/economics/faculty/wilson/ =20 which works perfectly in Rv2.2.0; after installing from a local zip and loading I find: =20 USING R version 2.2.0 =20 > local({pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available =3D TRUE))) + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=3DTRUE)}) Loading required package:

This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --27464147-1968795515-1164715405=:5670 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT You need to re-install packages when you update R, as it says in the rw-FAQ. Use update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) to

Dear Group I have few errors while installing package rattle from CRAN i do the installing from the local zip files... I am using R 2.4.0 do i have to upgrade to R2.4.1 ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ utils:::menuInstallLocal() package 'rattle' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked updating HTML package descriptions > help(rattle) No

Hi, I am having a problem building binary packages for Windows recently. Normally, I use the "Murdoch-Sutherland" tool set, http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ just build source packages by R CMD build <pkgname> and install these with R CMD INSTALL <pkgname> But now, for someone without having this tool set installed, under Win XP, with R-2.10dev

I am running R on Windows XP I first tried to install rJava and got this message utils:::menuInstallLocal() package 'rJava' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked updating HTML package descriptions then i tried this require(rJava) Loading required package: rJava Error in if (!nchar(javahome)) stop("JAVA_HOME is not set and could not be determined from the registry") :

Dears, Is it possible (in any viable way) to pass arguments to the base function (install.packages I think) using the utils:::menu? For example: > utils:::menuInstallPkgs(loc=.libPaths()[2]) > utils:::menuInstallLocal(loc=.libPaths()[2]) Thanks, ///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\ Jose Claudio Faria Estatistica UESC/DCET/Brasil joseclaudio.faria at gmail.com Telefones:

I am having difficulty installing the package "lattice". First I tried downloading it from the CRAN site (in the normal way) : the message said it worked but when I typed library I got an error message ("there is no package"). Second I tried installing it from the local zip. I have reproduced the result below. utils:::menuInstallLocal() package 'lattice'

Dear all, I've been trying to install the lme4 package from http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/lme4/. However, when wanting to load the package, I get an message saying that "x-tabs" are masked (see pasted code). Can anyone point to what has gone wrong? Kind regards, Andreas Nord Sweden > utils:::menuInstallLocal() package 'lme4' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums

Hello all, New user here. I have R 2.7.1. installed, but don?t have internet access in my PC. Therefore, I downloaded the ISwR package (Introductory Statistics with R) from CRAN and then moved it into my HD. I can?t seem to install the local package under Windows Vista system. I've tried using the men? "packages" "install package(s) from local zip files...", as suggested

Hi, I'm trying to get this library working under R2.10.0. I downloaded it and installed it from zip file. i get the following output. > library(hgu133a2.db) Error in library(hgu133a2.db) : there is no package called 'hgu133a2.db' > utils:::menuInstallLocal() package 'hgu133a2.db' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > library(hgu133a2.db) Loading required

Hi all, I have a problem in installing and using the plm package using R 2.2.0 on windows xp. I installed it from a .zip file downloaded from the CRAN. Apparently everything is ok: > utils:::menuInstallLocal() package 'plm' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked updating HTML package descriptions However, when I try to load it: > library(plm) Errore in lazyLoadDBfetch(key,

Hello R, I'm trying to install a package (class) locally; in windows 7, 64 bits machine. The only massage I see on the R Console is: utils:::menuInstallLocal() nothing else. What does this means, shouldn't I got some source of massage on the Console. EZ [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Greetings R-Helpers: I am trying to help a Chinese colleague who is experiencing difficulty loading my package. He is running WindowsXP and the Chinese version of R2.8.1. As you can see from his screen-copy (below), my package is successfully unpacked but cannot be loaded because splines balks when attempted to be loaded. Package mh1823 requires package survival, which in turn requires

Dear R friends, I am currently using Windows 8, 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor. I have installed R version 3.4.1 "Single Candle". Also, I have several packages installed in this path: C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4 Plus some other packages installed in this other path: C:\Users\PaulBernal\Desktop\DESTOP FILES\R Books C:\Users\PaulBernal\Desktop\DESTOP

Hi, Has something changed regarding the useDynLib in the NAMESPACE file in packages? I've written a package that works in e.g. 2.12/2.13 but simply cannot find the dynamic library under windows. The version on CRAN is older than the one I'm talking about and depends on a newer version of R but I want to make the package available to people with older versions. >

Hi! I was trying to install the RWinEdt library on a Windows Vista machine which had R 2.6.0, WinEdt 5.4 and the RWinEdt1.7.8.zip file in the library folder under the ...\R\2.6.0 directory. I am able to install fine form the local zip but I can't launch winedt from within R for some reason. > utils:::menuInstallLocal() package 'RWinEdt' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

Hi List, I'm running R2.5.1 on WinXP. Downloaded RMySQL_0.6-0.zip from http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/ and the installation seemed fine. However, when I tried to load the package, the error occured: > utils:::menuInstallLocal() package 'RMySQL' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked updating HTML package descriptions > library(RMySQL) Loading

Full_Name: Larry Layne Version: 2.4.0 OS: MS Windows 2000 Submission from: (NULL) (129.24.91.249) All of the following libraries loaded just fine in version 2.3.1: > utils:::menuInstallLocal() package 'tripack' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked updating HTML package descriptions > library(tripack) Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : unable

I have version 2.0.0 and upgraded to 2.0.2 and after - this is happend: Raw backtrace: /opt/dovecot2/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xb7e3425e] -> /opt/dovecot2/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xb7e342b5] -> /opt/dovecot2/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xb7e338d6] -> /opt/dovecot2/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xb7e31cb1] -> dovecot/pop3(client_handle_input+0x8e) [0x804be7e] ->