[R] Re: [no subject]

[Uwe Ligges]

Gaelle Rouault wrote:
> 
> R-helpers,
> 
> Beginner in R language, I have a problem to install a package (multiv) in R
> for Windows 98 (R-Gui)
> 
> First I have got the  multiv.zip file from the CRAN precompiled contributed
> packages for Windows and put this file in C:/Program Files/rw1022.
> in R-Gui I tried to install it as following
>  > install.packages("C:/Program Files/rw1022/multiv.zip")
> 
> I received  the following error message
> Commande ou nom de fichier incorrect
> Commande ou nom de fichier incorrect
> Error in scan(file = file, what = "", quote = "", sep = "\n", quiet = TRUE) :
>          cannot open file `c:\windows\TEMP\file23281'
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: argument `lib' is missing: using C:/PROGRA~1/RW1022/library in:
> install.packages("C:/Program Files/rw1022/multiv.zip")
> 2: wget not found
> 
> Then I have also unzipped wget.exe (from
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/wget.zip ) in rw1022 but I don't know
> how to install it on my computer

Just copy the files into your windows directory, for example.
 

> I have  tried to unzip the multiv.zip files (from the CRAN precompiled
> contributed packages)  in my R file (C:/Program Files/rw1022/library) using
> rwinst.exe

Alright - that should work, if there is a file DESCRIPTION in the
directory ...\library\multiv.
After unzipping the files, you should be able to strat R and say:
 library(multiv)
 

> But when I try to install it in R-Gui
>  >install.packages("C:/Program.Files/rw1022/library/multiv")
> I have always the same error message

1. It is not necessary to install it - it is already!
2. The folder-name is "Program.Files" ??? 


> Commande ou nom de fichier incorrect
> Commande ou nom de fichier incorrect
> Error in scan(file = file, what = "", quote = "", sep = "\n", quiet = TRUE) :
>          cannot open file `c:\windows\TEMP\file9961'
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: argument `lib' is missing: using C:/PROGRA~1/RW1022/library in:
> install.packages("C:/Program.Files/rw1022/library/multiv")
> 2: wget not found
> 
> Can Someone tell me to install wget first and install multiv package to use
> it in R-Gui?

Uwe Ligges
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