[R] Strange package installation error

[Benilton Carvalho]

you may also consider installing from the command line...

R CMD INSTALL ~/Desktop/Camino-downloads/DiagnosisMed_0.2.2.1.tar.gz

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On Aug 21, 2009, at 11:27 PM, Juliet Hannah wrote:

> Hi Janet,
>
> Were you able to install the package? I just installed it without
> problems. I don't
> think there should be any issues installing it. If it has not worked
> yet, make sure your
> R is updated, and if it is, maybe reinstall it.
>
> Best,
>
> Juliet
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Janet
> Rosenbaum<janet.rosenbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi.  I'm trying to install a new package.  I'm a relatively long-time
>> (though not advanced) R user and have never seen this error before.
>> For the first example, I tried a few different CRAN mirrors.  In the
>> second example, the file does exist; I downloaded it from the CRAN
>> website for the package and pasted in the name exactly a few  
>> different
>> times to make sure it was right.
>>
>>> install.packages("DiagnosisMed")
>> Warning message:
>> package ‘DiagnosisMed’ is not available
>>> install.packages("/Users/janet/Desktop/Camino-downloads/ 
>>> DiagnosisMed_0.2.2.1.tar.gz")
>> Warning message:
>> package ‘/Users/janet/Desktop/Camino-downloads/ 
>> DiagnosisMed_0.2.2.1.tar.gz’
>> is not available
>>
>> Permissions:
>> [Macintosh:~/Desktop/Camino downloads] janet% ls -l  
>> DiagnosisMed_0.2.2.1.tar.gz
>> -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 janet  janet  42731 Aug 17 17:31  
>> DiagnosisMed_0.2.2.1.tar.gz
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Janet
>> --
>> Janet Rosenbaum, Ph.D., A.M.
>> Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
>> janet at post.harvard.edu
>>
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