On 14.12.2010 23:48, Erik Lukac wrote:
Hi Mike, Hi Uwe, thanks for your reply. The main thing is that we have mixed OSs. On the one hand we have Linux, on the other WinXP. I need the same version of packages and R on both systems. Otherwise I cant explain my colleagues why error messages are reproduceable on only one system. Installing by compiling the .tar.gz-files does work on Linux, but not on Win because make is not avaivable :( I already tried.
It is in inlcuded in the Rtools installer available from Duncan Murdoch's webpage. See the R Installation and Administration manual.
The disadvantage of install.packages is (if I am not right tell me please), that the package is only installed for the local user (and its home-Directory ) who is using R at the moment. In my case I need to install for all local users. Is there a way to do that automated with install.packages ?
Yes: install to the library folder that is common to all users. Uwe Ligges
I might think about Uwe's proposal to install the latest R with the latest packages. But there's still that problem with installing for ALL users :S I am unable to do that - even if I can use a local repo. Any ideas? Thanks in advance Erik On 12/14/2010 06:17 PM, Mike Marchywka wrote:( hotmail just randomly decides not to prefix original text, my comments below) ---------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:36:11 +0100 From: er...@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Installing R-packages in Windows Hi there, I have the following problem and I hope somebody might help me. First of all: I am using WinXP SP3 (english and/or german) with R in Version 2.10.0. Now I am trying to install some packages but unfortunately I am getting a weird error. No matter which package I am trying to install - I nearly get the same error. It looks like this: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- C:\Program Files\R\R-2.10.0\bin>R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\car_2.0-2. zip Warning in rawToChar(block[seq_len(ns)]) : truncating string with embedded nul: MEEEE:::::: I used to build all from source then that stopped working and I have seen others here complain about installation failures. I have had good luck with what others have suggested, and use install.packages() It goes into a script ok, for example, ( note that "myR" is my script that invokes R but you can change etc). This points to ucla mirror, writes a script into $tf to install $pkf, installs $pkf by running the gerated script, and then shows you the results and deletes junk ( normally you want to check error codes before deling "junk" however) tf="$$_temp" cat -<< DUMMTY> $tf options(repos=c("http://cran.stat.ucla.edu";)) install.packages(c("$pkf"),dep=TRUE) DUMMTY echo executing cat "$tf" myR -run "$tf" echo removing $tf rm "$tf" echo removing R output cat "$tf".Rout rm "$tf".Rout______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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