[R] install package "snow"

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please do read the FAQ Q7.8.

Once you have followed that, it should install from the sources (it does 
for me).  However, to make it work you need other things which are 
non-trivial to get working on Windows: see

 	http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/cluster/cluster.html

for the lower-level interfaces.  I think snow over PVM has been reported 
to work under Windows, but I don't know about the others.

There is no binary version of the package, as testing that would be 
tedious at best.

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, 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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