[R] Problem with 'lars' package

[Uwe Ligges]

On 27.04.2010 07:33, Tal Galili wrote:
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... which explains one warning, see bewlow.

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> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:58 AM,<khasanova at berkeley.edu>  wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> I'm having trouble running 'lars'. When I install it I get the following
>> warning:
>>
>>> install.packages('lars')
>> Warning in install.packages("lars") :
>>   argument 'lib' is missing: using
>> 'C:\Users\Anna\Documents/R/win-library/2.10'

Well, you have not specified a library, hence the first one from 
.libPaths() is used. You can probably ignore it if this is fine for you.


>> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>> trying URL
>> 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.10/lars_0.9-7.zip'
>> Content type 'application/zip' length 211898 bytes (206 Kb)
>> opened URL
>> downloaded 206 Kb
>>
>> package 'lars' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>>
>> The downloaded packages are in
>>         C:\Users\Anna\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpmRYoLn\downloaded_packages
>> Warning message:
>> In open.connection(con, "r") :
>>   unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org' on port 80.


The CRAN master is unexpectedly unavailable as explained by Tal Galili.
This can be ignored, R tried to update the list of mirrors for you (from 
the CRAN master).



>>
>> When I actually try to run it, it gives me the following message:
>>
>> Error: argument "Gram" is missing, with no default


You misspecified a function call,I guess. But hard to say what you did 
without seeing the actual code.

Uwe Ligges




>> What is the problem?
>> Thank you,
>> Anna
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