[R] Some problems with installing a package under Windows

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 Carl-Frederik.Scharffenorth at gmx.de wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I've just installed R and I'm doing my first steps. I tried to install a
> package from a local zip.file.
>
> ------------------
> > {pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available = TRUE)))
> + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=TRUE)}
> > install.packages("C:/schacar/rw1051/RPgSQL.zip", .libPaths()[1], CRAN =
> NULL)
> updating HTML package descriptions
> -----------------
>
> But after installing it is not available within the library.
> -----------------
> > {pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available = TRUE)))
> + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=TRUE)}
> ----------------
>
> By using the select I only can load pre-installed packages. Did anybody
> using R under Windows have the some problems? Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

The most likely guess is that the local zip file is not in the correct
format, so please ask the person who provided it.

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