[R] distr package

[Peter Ruckdeschel]

Thanks David,

for answering this question.

> On Oct 8, 2009, at 4:33 AM, msigdel at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>> Dear all
>> when I try to install "distr", the following error appears, I am using
>> R in windows. can u suggest me?
>>
> 
> I'm not a Windows user, but the obvious questions would be "How?". What
> commands or method? and "Which?" (version of Windows and the ever
> present question for Vista users ... what is your level of admin
> privileges), and "Is that everything?" (was that the entire output?)
> 
> And the second obvious question: Why have you not included output from:
> 
>  sessionInfo()
> 
> Perhaps a not so obvious question that you should answer:  what is the
> output from:
> 
>  .libPaths()
> 
> 
>> Error in normalizePath(path) :
>>  path[1]="C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.1\library/distr": The system cannot
>> find the file specified

I can assist David's comments.

@ the original poster:

It might be a backslash thing (and does not seem to be
connected to package distr in any respect):

Within R, even on Windows, you can use the forward slash as folder
separator, so your trailing "/distr" seems to be oK.

Backslashes, which in R on Windows may also serve for this purpose,
have to be escaped, so you might eigher try

"C:/Program Files/R/R-2.9.1/library/distr"

or

"C:\\Program Files\\R\R-2.9.1\\library/distr"

In fact you have not told us all you saw, I suppose:
Didn't you get this warning, too?

In addition: Warning messages:
1: '\P' is an unrecognized escape in a character string
2: '\R' is an unrecognized escape in a character string
3: '\R' is an unrecognized escape in a character string
4: unrecognized escapes removed from "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.1/distr"

which already told you the problem.

btw: it would be nice also if you could at least tell us your
name so that we can address you personally.

Peter Ruckdeschel,
maintainer of package distr