On 27/02/2012 3:01 PM, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
Do you perhaps need to add install.packages(..., type="src")? Just a (untested) guess...
That should be type="source", and that should solve the problem, assuming Deepan has the necessary tools installed. If not, he can get them from CRAN in the bin/windows/Rtools directory.
Duncan Murdoch
Michael On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:07 PM, DT54321<deepan.tailo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am having real problems downloading the package 'QRMlib'. The tar.gz file > is shown here: > > http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/QRMlib/ > > I have downloaded this to my local folder and entered the following command: > > nstall.packages("myLocalFolder/QRMlib_1.4.5.1.tar.gz", repos = NULL) > > but I am getting the following error message > > Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Program Files/R/R-2.14.1/library’ > (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) > Warning in install.packages : > error 1 in extracting from zip file > Warning in install.packages : > cannot open compressed file 'QRMlib_1.4.5.1.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION', probable > reason 'No such file or directory' > Error in install.packages : cannot open the connection > > What am I doing wrong?? > > Thanks > > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-package-QRMlib-tp4425269p4425269.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. ______________________________________________ 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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