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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. >

After entering ?library(rpart)?, I tried to plot an existing rpart tree, and got this error message: Error: couldn't find function "plot.rpart". However, ??plot.rpart? does bring up the help for the function. The same things occur for text.rpart, although print(my.tree) does work. So, I tried to re-install rpart using Packages | Install from CRAN, but then I get this

Full_Name: michael cole Version: 1.9.1 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (80.219.153.13) When trying to install lattice graphics... I receieve the following: trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.9/lattice_0.9-16.zip' Content type `application/zip' length 496618 bytes opened URL downloaded 484Kb package 'lattice' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums

Hi, I have installed R 1.9.0 under Windows XP. When I used "Packages->Install Package(s) from CRAN..." to install the package 'gregmisc', I got this message: > local({a <- CRAN.packages() + install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], available=a)}) trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.9/PACKAGES' Content type `text/plain;

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

When trying to update (various) packages using update.packages() I get the following error message for various packages package 'fBasics' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Error in unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2L], foundpkgs[okp, 1L], lib) : malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field > This happens with other packages besides fBasics (Matrix, as well as others) and I

When trying to update (various) packages using update.packages() I get the following error message for various packages package 'fBasics' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Error in unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2L], foundpkgs[okp, 1L], lib) : malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field > This happens with other packages besides fBasics (Matrix, as well as others)

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:

Windows XP. I have just updated to R 2.11.0 and then run update.packages. In the series of updates, a few will succeed, then I get a failure like package 'mvtnorm' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'party' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'PBSmodelling' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Error in normalizePath(path) :

Dear all, i was working under R 1.6.2 but i wanted to install bioconductor under WinXP, and because R 1.7.1 contains the TclTk package and automatic installation of bioconductor packages, so i install it. Everything is fine except this message which appear after the installation of packages. "> local({a<- CRAN.packages(CRAN=getOption("BIOC")) +

Hello, when trying to write an R-file, which automatically installs and updates a given list of packages, I had two problems with install.packages() 1) install.packages("<package>") will install <package>, no matter if <package> has already been installed. 2) the readline() at the end of install.packages, which asks the user, if the downloaded files should be

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

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,

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(

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

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(

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 =

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.

At the encouragement of many at UseR, I'm trying to build my first real package. I have no C/Fortran code, just plain old R code, so it should be rocket science. On a Linux box, I used package.skeleton() to create a basic package containing just one "hello world" type of function. I edited the DESCRIPTION file, changin the package name appropriately. I edited the hello.Rd file.