Dear All,
I am a relative newbie to R, and am struggling to install packages on my laptop
(although I have managed to on my desktop and a borrowed departmental laptop).
I have tried various packages with the same result. Illustration for
> install.packages("outliers")
.... leads to .....
Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection
Calls: <Anonymous> -> sub -> grep -> readLines -> file
In addition: Warning message:
In file(con, "r") :
cannot open file
'/sw/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/etc/Makeconf': No
such file or directory
I have tried in both the R environment on command line, and in RStudio, with
the same result, and reinstalled and updated both r-base and rstudio-desktop
via fink. Both using a CRAN mirror and using a download (outliers_0.14.tar.gz)
seem to produce the same result, and I think they're both working as the output
says 'downloaded' (see below)
> install.packages("outliers")
Installing package into �
(as � is unspecified)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
trying URL 'https://mirrors.ebi.ac.uk/CRAN/src/contrib/outliers_0.14.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 15090 bytes (14 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 14 KB
>From looking aroud on the web it seems that the message "In file(con, "r") :
>cannot open file" just means that R cannot find a file it thinks it needs.
>However, I've looked in
>/sw/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/etc/ both on this
>machine and the other laptop that is able to install packages, and 'Makeconf'
>is not in ether of them.
So, I'm thoroughly confused and have run out of ideas.
Please help.
I hope that this is something simple that I'm missing. If so, a pointer to a
manual page or instructions would be gratefully received.
John
p.s - Full output in sequence in case it's useful.
> install.packages("outliers")
Installing package into �
(as � is unspecified)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
trying URL 'https://mirrors.ebi.ac.uk/CRAN/src/contrib/outliers_0.14.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 15090 bytes (14 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 14 KB
Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection
Calls: <Anonymous> -> sub -> grep -> readLines -> file
In addition: Warning message:
In file(con, "r") :
cannot open file
'/sw/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/etc/Makeconf': No
such file or directory
The downloaded source packages are in
�
Warning message:
In install.packages("outliers") :
installation of package � had non-zero exit status
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Dr John Hillier
Senior Lecturer - Physical Geography
Loughborough University
01509 223727
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