If you are using the Carbon version of R (there are *two* ports for MacOS X) then install.packages() is not included. (Where have you been reading about it: under documentation for a different port?)
You need to get akima.sit from the /bin/macos/contrib area on CRAN. On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Åsa Byström wrote: > I recently installed R 1.7.1 on Mac OS 10.2.6, and I now need to > install the akima package. When I use install.packages(akima) or any > variation of that command, I get the following message: > > Error: couldn't find function "install.packages" > > (I haven't had any problems with other commands so far, so I don't > think there's a problem with the R installation. I also threw the whole > thing out and re-installed R from scratch, but that didn't help.) > > I then tried simply downloading, unstuffing, and dragging the package What do you mean by `the package'? The sources, akima*.tar.gz or the MacOS binary akima.sit? > to my library folder. But then, when I tried library(akima), another > error message said the package wasn't properly installed. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help