[R] Install from source

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Thomas Lumley <tlumley at u.washington.edu> writes:

> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Daniel A. Powers wrote:
> 
> > 
> > R -users --
> > I am new to R and trying to create Jim Lindsay's Nonlinear Regression and
> > Repeated Measures libraries. I have tried
> > 
> > R CMD INSTALL file.tgz
> > 
> > R says...
> > 
> > ERROR: cannot extract package from file.tgz 
> > 
> > I have also tried build.
> > 
> 
> It's 
>   R INSTALL file.tgz
> but at least some of Jim Lindsey's packages won't install in .tgz form, so
> you may need to untar it first. 


Both forms should work, but:

The .tgz form relies on the name of the file, specifically through

pkgname=`echo "${pkgname}" | sed 's/_.*//'`

which is not going to isolate the package name unless it is
immediately followed by "_". To fix it, presumably it would suffice
just to strip off .tgz and .tar.gz endings.

A quick workaround (apart from manual untarring) could be

mv file.tgz file_
R INSTALL file_

The slow workaround is to persuade Jim to put version numbers on his
packages... 

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