[R] Installing R-packages in Windows

[Uwe Ligges]

Or in short, type

  install.packages("car")

within R.

Note that you won't get new versions of car for the outdated version of 
R. Note also that your zip file might not fit to the R version you are 
using.

Hence recommendation is to upgrade to R-2.12.0 patched (or 2.12.1 which 
will be released this Thursday) and run install.packages() after the 
upgrade.

Uwe Ligges



On 14.12.2010 18:17, Mike Marchywka wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:36:11 +0100
> From: erikl at phonetik.uni-muenchen.de
> To: r-help at r-project.org
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> Hi there,
> I have the following problem and I hope somebody might help me.
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> First of all: I am using WinXP SP3 (english and/or german) with R in
> Version 2.10.0.
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> Now I am trying to install some packages but unfortunately I am getting
> a weird error. No matter which package I am trying to install - I nearly
> get the same error.
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> It looks like this:
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> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.10.0\bin>R CMD INSTALL
> %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\car_2.0-2.
> zip
> Warning in rawToChar(block[seq_len(ns)]) :
>     truncating string with embedded nul:
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> I used to build all from source then that stopped working and I have
> seen others here complain about installation failures. I have had  good
> luck with what others have suggested, and use install.packages()
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> It goes into a script ok, for example, ( note that "myR" is my
> script that invokes R but you can change etc). This points to ucla
> mirror, writes a script into $tf to install $pkf,  installs $pkf by
> running the gerated script, and then shows you the results and deletes junk
> ( normally you want to check error codes before deling "junk" however)
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> tf="$$_temp"
> cat -<<  DUMMTY>  $tf
> options(repos=c("http://cran.stat.ucla.edu"))
> install.packages(c("$pkf"),dep=TRUE)
> DUMMTY
> echo executing
> cat "$tf"
> myR -run "$tf"
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> echo removing $tf
> rm "$tf"
> echo removing R output
> cat "$tf".Rout
> rm "$tf".Rout
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