[R] Problem installing packages in R 2.4.1

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Thu Mar 22 08:50:00 CET 2007



Paul Gottemoller wrote:
> I am attempting to install a anchoring vingettes package for R and I seem to
> have a problem with unzipping the files in R.  I use the command that can be
> found here <http://wand.stanford.edu/anchors/>.
> 
> Here is the dialog I get after entering the command:
> 
>>     install.packages("anchors", dependencies = TRUE,
> +     repos=c("http://wand.stanford.edu/R/CRAN","http://cran.r-project.org
> "))
> dependency ''snow'' is not available
> 
> also installing the dependency 'rgenoud'
> 
> trying URL '
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/rgenoud_5.0-5.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 113709 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 111Kb
> 
> trying URL '
> http://wand.stanford.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/anchors_2.0.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 592348 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 578Kb
> 
> Error in zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : cannot open file 'C:/Program Files/R/R-
> 2.4.1/library/file20a84af3/rgenoud/chtml/rgenoud.chm'
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you in advance.
> 


Which version of Windows? If Vista, you might need to overcome some 
security issues and remember to install a package into a library within 
c:\Program Files with Administrator privileges.
If another version of Windows, please retry to install rgenoud and 
remove any prior versions manually, the binary package on CRAN is fine.

Uwe Ligges



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