similar to: install.packages for local zip files

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

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

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

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

See below. gs. Error in browse.pkgs("CRAN", "binary") : couldn't find function "avaliable.packages" Your version of R is up to date > browse.pkgs function (repos = getOption("repos"), contriburl = contrib.url(repos, type), type = getOption("pkgType")) { if (.Platform$GUI != "AQUA") stop("this function

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R.app from the same R-2.1.0.dmg file, and fixInNamespace'ing(*) install.packages(), I managed to update 23 outdated packages from CRAN binaries for MacOS X. What I did was to: 1.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

Here are the error messages: > install.packages('plotrix') Warning in install.packages("plotrix") : argument 'lib' is missing: using '/Users/dbae/Library/R/library' --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Error in .install.macbinary(pkgs = pkgs, lib = lib, contriburl = contriburl, : unable to create temporary directory

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,

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:

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(

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. >

Hello, > version _ platform x86_64-w64-mingw32 arch x86_64 os mingw32 system x86_64, mingw32 status Patched major 3 minor 2.1 year 2015 month 07 day 16 svn rev 68681 language R version.string R version 3.2.1 Patched (2015-07-16 r68681) nickname World-Famous Astronaut I

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 =

On 7/19/2015 3:50 AM, peter dalgaard wrote: >> For some, but not allI repositories I get the error message below: >> >Error in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = >> >contriburl, : >> > specifying 'contriburl' or 'available' requires a single type, not type = >> >"both" >> >

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 =

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(

Dear Mr Moderator, please let me through. I want to reply to my own thread. I once subscribed to this list, but then my subscription was not accepted. Now to the business: The final failure came from missing .install.macbinary() function. I grepped R-patched sourcesand the only instance of .install.macbinary() was the call to the function in R- patched/src/library/utils/R/packages2.R (stupid

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

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