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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, 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 :

You forgot a lot of things asked for in the posting guide, but if this is 
the CRAN binary version of R, the default type is not "source".  See 
?install.packages.

There is of course R-sig-mac on which to ask Mac OS-specific questions.


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> http://tocsy.agnld.uni-potsdam.de/wavelets/
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> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:25 AM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
>> --
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>> problems of being mammals.
>>
>> -K. Mullis
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> 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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