Dear Leigh, You have 2 options:
1. build the MAC OS X package for yourself and install it, in this way you will be able to use the help files as usual, 2. unpack the .tar.gz and source all files in the /R directory (on how to do it at once see Example in help(source)). Cheers, Peter On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Leigh Fall<leigh.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > I have recently starting using R, so I'm still on the steep-learning curve > of the program. I have been unable to install Diveristy.R from Dr. > Pelissier's website (http://pelissier.free.fr/Diversity.html). I have > downloaded the libraries "ade4" and "spdep" (along with all the other > packages needed to run spdep). I'm running R version 2.9.1 on a MAC OS X > version 10.5.8. When I click on "Package source (all platforms): > diversity_1.5-9.tar.gz<http://pelissier.free.fr/diversity/R-2.8.1/diversity_1.5-9.tar.gz>" > from the website, a folder labeled "diversity" is downloaded onto my > desktop. One question I have is where the package/folder/library should be > downloaded. My other question is how to install it. I've tried to Package > Installer-Local Binary Package and Local Source Package at the user level > without success. I also just downloaded the tar.gz file directly to my > desktop and then use the Package Installer, but again without success. I > tried the install.packages command, but I don't know if I'm using it > correctly. The solution is probably simple, but with my limited experience > with writing code and programming, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. > > Any help will be appreciated!! Many thanks in advance!!! > > Cheers, > Leigh > > > -- > ******************************************** > Leigh M. Fall > Ph.D. Candidate > Dept. of Geology and Geophysics > Texas A&M University > 3115 TAMU > College Station, TX 77843 > Phone: (979) 845-3071 > E-mail: leigh.f...@gmail.com > http://geoweb.tamu.edu/profile/LFall > ******************************************** > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-ecology mailing list > R-sig-ecology@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology > > _______________________________________________ R-sig-ecology mailing list R-sig-ecology@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology