> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of cindy Guo > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 5:36 PM > To: Steve Lianoglou > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] install package from CRAN > > Hi, Steve, > > Thanks for the response. > > I did the same thing: > install.packages('mvtnorm') > -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `'mvtnorm'' > > I think what may cause difference is that I am using a unix cluster of my > university, so I am not the administrator. Do I need to set the path? > > Cindy > The error you are getting is from the bash shell. Are you trying to run the command from the shell, or from inside R? You need to start R and then run install.packages('mvtnorm') from the R terminal. You still may have permission problems, and I think you will need to have installed and have access to the appropriate tools for building packages.
Hope this is helpful, Dan Daniel J. Nordlund Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Planning, Performance, and Accountability Research and Data Analysis Division Olympia, WA 98504-5204 ______________________________________________ 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.
