Add the arguments type="source" and repos=NULL to your call to install.packages(). repos=NULL means that this is a local file, not something to download from a repository.
Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 8:31 AM Richard M. Heiberger <r...@temple.edu> wrote: > > incorrect double slash c:// > use single slash c:/ > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:21 Philip <herd_...@cox.net> wrote: > > > I am struggling to install a fix for the rNOMADS package which reads > > National Weather Service data. I copied the fix (rNOMADS_2.5.0.tar.gz) > > from an email to a local drive and then tried to install it with the > > command below. I also tried installing it without the .tar.gz extension > > and without the _2.5.0 extension but I get the same error message. The > > author, Daniel Bowman, emailed me that the fix should work for R version > > 4.0 or better. > > > > > > > > Do I need to untar it? > > > > > > > > > > install.packages("C://Documents/Ballooning/WeatherBriefing/rNOMADS_2.5.0.tar.gz") > > > > > > > > Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Owner/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’ > > > > (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) > > > > Warning in install.packages : > > > > package ‘C://Documents/Ballooning/WeatherBriefing/rNOMADS_2.5.0.tar.gz’ > > is not available (for R version 4.0.2) > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > > > 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]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.