[R] Can't install new packages

[Uwe Ligges]

John Shonder wrote:
> I am using R 1.7.0 under unix, installed on Mac OS X
> via fink. I wanted to install the date package, and
> used the following command:
> 
> install.packages(date)


  install.packages("date")

(note the quotes!)

Uwe Ligges


> It sure looked like it was going to work:
> 
> trying URL
> `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
> Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length
> 180100 bytes
> opened URL
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> downloaded 175Kb
> 
> Error in unique.default(pkgs) : unique() applies only
> to vectors
> 
> What is this "Error in unique.default(pkgs)? By the
> way I ran R under the "sudo" command, so things could
> certainly be written to other directories if
> necessary.
> 
> I appreciate any help. Thanks.
> 
> John Shonder
> 
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