Thanks to all who replied to this. I do have the Windows tool set, and
none of these packages required
fancy stuff, or contained compiled code, so install.packages(...,
type="source") was an effective one-time solution.
Still, David has, I think, found the source of the problem I encountered:
Is this just an R-Forge problem?
I'm not informed about the workings of r-forge, but did you notice
that there were no packages in that bin/windows directory whose
alphabetical collation would be after lowercase "i". That seems to
suggest some sort of system error encountered before the next package
after "ipreds" was completed.
On the project page the binaries for windows are listed as "offline".
https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=431
On 7/31/2011 12:20 PM, Ista Zahn wrote:
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Joshua Wiley<jwiley.ps...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 9:00 AM, David Winsemius<dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote:
On Jul 31, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Ista Zahn wrote:
Hi Michael,
The easiest thing to do is just install the source package with
install.packages("p3d", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org";, type =
"source")
You'll need install some prerequisite software first (if you've not
already done so). See
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#The-Windows-toolset
Is that always true? I thought that one could install pure-R packages from
source without the toolset. Just asking, I'm not windozing, this year
anyway.
No, it is not. For pure R, you can get by without the Windows toolset
(though I am not sure about things like byte-compiling). That said,
"getting the toolset" basically just involves downloading and double
clicking a nicely bundled program Duncan Murdoch supplies so it takes
virtually nil effort.
Right, and just installing the Windows tools is probably quicker than
checking to see if any of c("p3d", "patchDVI", "spacemakeR", "spida")
contain compiled code.
Best
Ista
Josh
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David.
Best,
Ista
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Michael Friendly<frien...@yorku.ca>
wrote:
[Env: Win XP]
I've just upgraded from R 2.12.2 to R 2.13.1. As part of my upgrade
process, I typically install some in-development
packages from R-Forge that are not on cran. But for the first time, it
doesn't work.
e.g.,
> install.packages("p3d", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org";)
trying URL
'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/p3d_0.02-2.zip'
Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
cannot open URL
'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/p3d_0.02-2.zip'
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available,
:
download of package 'p3d' failed
The list of packages I install this way is:
special<- c("p3d", "patchDVI", "spacemakeR", "spida")
install.packages(special,repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org";)
Is this just an R-Forge problem? The source packages are there, but not
the windows binaries. The log files
are uninformative:
p3d log file (build_win64)
Sun Jul 31 00:28:31 2011: Building binary for package p3d (SVN revision
19)
using R version 2.13.1 Patched (2011-07-22 r56481) ...
Package up to date. Not building ...
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