-----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of David Winsemius Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:41 AM To: Stephen P Molnar Cc: r-help@r-project.org; 'Uwe Ligges' Subject: Re: [R] Problem Installing rJava on MS Win 7 Platform
He said "Java", not "rJava. On Apr 7, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Stephen P Molnar wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > Yes, you are quite correct, but: > >> install.packages('rJava') > Warning in install.packages("rJava") : > argument 'lib' is missing: using > 'C:\Users\Stephen\Documents/R/win64-library/2.11' > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows64/contrib/2.11 > trying URL 'http://cran.case.edu/bin/windows64/contrib/2.11/rJava_0.8-5.zip' > Content type 'application/zip' length 658913 bytes (643 Kb) > opened URL > downloaded 643 Kb > > package 'rJava' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > The downloaded packages are in > C:\Users\Stephen\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpcy0hAb > \downloaded_packages >> > install.packages('C;\Users\Stephen\AppData\Local/Temp/Rtmpcy0hAb > \downloaded_ There is a semi-colon in that path above that looks wrong. You might first want to check that all your PATH entries are recorded properly. -- David. > $ > Error: '\U' used without hex digits in character string starting "C; > \U" >> > > So, obviously, at this point I am attempting something that R does > not like. In addition, for Windows you need to either double your back-slashes in the file path, or use forward-slashes instead. Hope this is helpful, Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA ______________________________________________ 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.