[R] I want to install a package on Max OS X from a local file

[Richard Pearson]

>From the (terminal window) command line try:

R CMD INSTALL path.to.file/filename.tar.gz

Does that do it?

Richard


stephen sefick wrote:
> install.packages(file.choose(), repos=NULL)
> thought this would work, but it didn't
> the package is the sowas package - this doesn't seem to be a CRAN package,
> and it can be found at :
> 
> http://tocsy.agnld.uni-potsdam.de/wavelets/
> 
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:25 AM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I can't figure this one out- I am the administrator,  The file that I want
>> to install is a .tar.gz which is located on my desktop.  How do I get it
>> into my packages directory- through the GUI or through brute force?
>> thanks
>>
>> stephen
>>
>> --
>> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so
>> little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us
>> feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little
>> problems of being mammals.
>>
>> -K. Mullis
> 
> 
> 
> 

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