[R] problems installing package XML to a computer without an internet connection

[Bob Green]

Brian,

Thank you for your reply and advice. I hope that I did not give the 
impression that your build was the cause of the difficulties I 
experienced. If so, I apologise for this.

Your email was helpful in alerting me to the need to install 'proxy' 
and I subsequently located the current version zip file at:
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.8/

Once I copied this version of the XML file that you wrote, the 
installation worked without problem.

Thank you again,

regards

Bob


At 06:03 PM 11/01/2009, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Bob Green wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I am hoping for some advice regarding how I can install the XML 
>>package which I require to run package tm.
>>
>>Normally I would use the install package option, however, I have to 
>>install the packages to a laptop running XP.
>
>Windows, I presume.
>
>>The laptop does not have an internet connection.
>>
>>Firstly I tried the file -   XML_1.99-0.tar.gz . Below is the error 
>>I received
>
>What does 'try' mean?  That would work if you used Rcmd INSTALL on 
>it, or install.packages(type="source").
>
>>Error in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
>>In addition: Warning messages:
>>1: In zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : error 1 in extracting from zip file
>>2: In gzfile(file, "r") :
>>  cannot open compressed file 'XML_1.99-0.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION', 
>> probable reason 'No such file or directory'
>>
>>Then I tried XML 1.96-0.zip (from 
>>http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.7/). Below is the
>
>Why from 2.7?  What version is your R?
>
>>error I received
>
>So that worked: it is 'proxy' you are missing.  From the DESCRIPTION file
>
>package: tm
>Title: Text Mining Package
>Version: 0.3-3
>Date: 2008-12-20
>Author: Ingo Feinerer, with contributions from Christian Buchta, 
>Kurt Hornik, David Meyer, and Fridolin Wild
>Maintainer: Ingo Feinerer <feinerer at logic.at>
>Depends: R (>= 2.7.0), filehash, Matrix, methods, Snowball, XML
>Imports: proxy
>Suggests: Rgraphviz, Rmpi, Rstem (>= 0.3-1), snow
>
>still you may need packages filehash, Matrix, methods, Snowball and proxy.
>
>I suggest getting those from bin/windows/contrib/2.7/ on CRAN, and 
>installing from the 'Local zip file' menu optipn.
>
>>Loading required package: XML
>>Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths())) :
>>  there is no package called 'proxy'
>>Error: package/namespace load failed for 'tm'
>>
>>Any suggestions are appreciated,
>
>Read the posting guide, remember to tell us what we asked for 'at a 
>minumum' and what you actually did.
>
>>Bob
>>
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>
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