You probably need to get your users permissions (in win 7) set properly...
----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:26 PM, radagast <haseeb.mah...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was trying to install a package called ei from this > http://gking.harvard.edu/eiR link . With GCC, r-base-dev and some other R > package dependencies installed it works perfect in my Ubuntu Linux system. > > Now I am trying to install the same in Windows 7 environment. So far my > setup is as follows, > > 1. R installed in home folder (c:\Users\username\R-2.12.1\R. It is set to > run as administrator, and the R folder is writable. > 2. My working directory is (c:\Users\username\Documents) > 3. Rtool is installed in (c:\Rtools) > > Having this setup, > > 4. I tried to install it by the command, > install.packages("ei",repos="http://r.iq.harvard.edu";) > This command gives me the following error message. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Installing package(s) into C:\Users\username\Documents/R/win-library/2.12 > (as lib is unspecified) > Warning message: > In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) : > package ei is not available > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > After that I have decided to have a try to install it from a local zip > file, > so I proceeded in the following way, > > > 5. I have downloaded the package ei_0.938.tar.gz, untar it and make a zip > file from that. I placed it into my work directory. > 6. I opened the terminal (Run > cmd), went to the work directory and tried > to run the command R COM INSTALL ei > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > It shows me the following error message, > C:\Users\username\Documents>R COM INSTALL ei > 'R' is not recognized as an internal or external command, > operable program or batch file. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I am not sure what should I do now. Is there anyone to help? > > > _ Rdgst. > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-package-in-windows-7-tp3225439p3225439.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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