[R] Installing packages

[Hector L. Ayala-del-Rio]

Fred,
   Did you loaded the library before typing "?fdim"
 >
 > ?fdim
Error in help("fdim") : No documentation for `fdim' in specified packages 
and libraries:
   you could try `help.search("fdim")'
 > library(fdim)
 > ?fdim
 >
fdim                  package:fdim                  R Documentation

Calculation of generalizated fractal dimension of Data-Sets.

Description:

      Returns the Fractal Dimension of data-frames.

Usage:

      fdim(X, BaseR=2, Mnmax=TRUE, nMax=9, NumMinP=1, q=0, Alpha=0.2, 
PlotF=FALSE)

Arguments:


Hector



At 12:04 AM 3/7/2004, Fred J. wrote:
>yes, I loged in as admin. and that fixed the problem,
>but when I type ?fdim I don't get the help docs, why?
>even though I have all the htmls under
>C:\Program Files\R\rw1081\library\fdim\html
>
>thanks
>--- Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch at pair.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 13:30:25 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
> >
> > >Error in int.unzip(zipname, NULL, dest) :
> > destination
> > >does not exist
> > >
> >
> > R tries to build a temporary directory to hold the
> > files, and it
> > sounds as though it's failing when it does that.
> > You can see the sort
> > of name it is trying to use with this command:
> >
> > > tempfile(,.libPaths()[1])
> > [1] "F:/R/cvs/r-devel/library\\file27447"
> >
> > If you don't have permission to create a directory
> > with that name,
> > then the command will fail.  I'd guess that's your
> > problem.
> >
> > The way around this is to install the library in a
> > local path, instead
> > of one where you don't have write access.  You can
> > do this within a
> > session by calling
> >
> > .libPaths('c:/newpath')
> >
> > and on the command line that invoked R by adding the
> > argument
> > "R_LIBS=c:/newpath".
> >
> > Notice the use of the forward slash, not a
> > backslash, in the path
> > name.
> >
> > Duncan Murdoch
> >
> >
>
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