[R] Rinst.exe question

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Mon Feb 28 14:58:37 CET 2000


Sure the window scrolls, but it does *not* list all packages I have in the
same directory.  (It's flat out obvious because I downloaded just about all
the packages in the contrib section, yet it only lists about 4 or 5 of
them.)  I've checked this several times.  Same thing on a Win98 machine.

Andy Liaw
Merck Biometrics Research
Phone: (732) 594-0820
Fax: (732) 594-1565
mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com


> ----------
> From: 	Peter Dalgaard BSA[SMTP:p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk]
> Sent: 	Monday, February 28, 2000 8:53 AM
> To: 	Liaw, Andy
> Cc: 	'r-help'
> Subject: 	Re: [R] Rinst.exe question
> 
> "Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw at merck.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm using R0.99a on WinNT4.  I downloaded a bunch of packages and tried
> > using Rinst.exe to install them.  For whatever reason, Rinst.exe does
> not
> > find all the packages I downloaded.  I put all files in the same temp
> > directory, but Rinst only finds some of them.  I have no problem
> installing
> > the rest with WinZip, but if Rinst works it would be much easier (don't
> have
> > to run WinZip 20+ times).
> > 
> > Anyone have any idea?
> 
> Silly question #1, but it has to be asked: The installer window is
> scrollable, isn't it?
> 
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