[R] install package "snow"

[Roger D. Peng]

I think for 'snow' you need to download the source and build it 
yourself.  I assume you are on Windows (you didn't say!).  'snow' 
depends on external programs so it would seem unwise to have a 
binary package on CRAN.

-roger

Steve Adams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have difficulty in installing package "snow" from
> CRAN. Somehow, this package is not shown up in the
> available package list when I tried to use the GUI
> interface. So I have to go to CRAN to download the
> source file: snow_0.2-1.tar.gz. Then I tried to
> install it using the following command:
> 
> 
>>install.packages(repos=NULL, pkgs='C:\Documents and
> 
> Settings\Desktop\snow_0.2-1.tar.gz', type='source',
> lib = 'c:/program files/r/rw2010/library/')
> 
> Warning message:
> installation of package 'C:Documents and
> Settingsyzhang24Desktopsnow_0.2-1.tar.gz' had non-zero
> exit status in: install.packages(repos = NULL, pkgs =
> "C:Documents and
> Settingsyzhang24Desktopsnow_0.2-1.tar.gz",  
> 
> What's the problem here, and how should I handle it?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Steve
> 
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Roger D. Peng
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