[R] Installing A2R in Windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 6 May 2008, Kate wrote:

> Thanks. I used the command you mention and it works fine in Linux. But I
> need to get it to work for Windows XP as well (currently running
> R-2.7.0). Any idea if it's possible?

Yes, same commmand works -- I've just tested it.  You need the tools 
installed, or to submit to Uwe Ligges' win-builder (mentioned in the 
manual).

> 
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>       How did you install it?
>
>       You need to get A2R_0.0-4.tar.gz and do R CMD INSTALL
>       A2R_0.0-4.tar.gz, after reading the 'R Installation and
>       Administration manual, especially the sections for your OS.
>
>       The package in A2R/lastVersion/ was built for Unix on R
>       2.2.1. An expert might be able to get it working, but we
>       don't even know your OS and R version.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 6 May 2008, Kate wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I've tried to install the A2R package using the files from
> http://addictedtor.free.fr/packages/A2R/lastVersion/
> 
> This is the error I get when trying to load the library:
> library(A2R)
> Error in library(A2R) :
>  'A2R' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0?
> 
> Can anyone please help? Thanks.
> Kate
> 
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
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