[BioC] install local .gz package in windows

[Martin Morgan]

Jay -- Perhaps what you rrealy want to do is install the binary (.zip)
version of the package.  If the package is on Bioconductor or CRAN
then the easiest thing to do is

> source('http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R')
> biocLite('YourPackageName')

This will figure out the right version of the package for your version
of R, find and download the binary version, and install it.

Martin

Kasper Daniel Hansen <khansen at stat.berkeley.edu> writes:

> The tar.gz extension implies that you have a source package. The zip  
> extension implies that you have a binary windows package. They are  
> somewhat different. In order to install a source package for R on  
> windows you will need to setup your windows machine so it can build R  
> from source, see the R-admin guide and various FAQs. This is not  
> super hard if you know what you are doing, but it is not a walk in  
> the park in case you are completely unfamiliar with this.
>
> Kasper
>
> On Dec 6, 2007, at 7:16 PM, Jay an wrote:
>
>> can you tell me how to install package (from local .gz file) in  
>> windows R?
>>   in the package menu. there is only one item "install packages  
>> from local .zip files..".
>>   is it means .tar.gz file format can not be used in windows R?
>>
>>   thanks
>>
>>
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