On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote: > August Berg wrote: > >>> library(kidpack) >> >> Error in library(kidpack) : 'kidpack' is not a valid package -- installed < >> 2.0.0? >> >> On 11/30/05, August Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> * I have both R and Biobase and also download kidpack_1.1.1.tar.gz. >>> After I unzip the gz file, I got the folders and files. Then i got >>> lost: how to install the package of kidpack(because there is no zipped >>> file after I uninstall kidpack_1.1.1.tar.gz)? If I choose install from >>> local zipped file, kidpack_1.1.1.tar.gz does not show on the selection >>> list. >>> Thanks a lot! * >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > Looks like you are on Windows. > Apparently (from clicking into the R menu to install a Bioconductor > package: "Select repository...", then "Install package(s)..." ), for > this *Bioconductor* package, no Windows binary is available. Hence (if > possible at all) you have to install the package from sources. You need > the required development tools (see the Istallation and Administration > manual) and call R CMD INSTALL from the commandline.
install.packages("mypkg", type="source") will also work, if the package does install on Windows. But kidpack is not a listed BioC package in the current release, and a search there produced nothing. > For questions on the availability of BioC Windows binary packages please > contact the Bioconductor folks and use their mailing list (after looking > for documentation why kidpack is not available for Windows, of course). -- 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 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html