[R] Installing R-packages in Windows

[Erik Lukac]

Hi Mike, Hi Uwe,

thanks for your reply.
The main thing is that we have mixed OSs. On the one hand we have Linux, 
on the other WinXP. I need the same version of packages and R on both 
systems. Otherwise I cant explain my colleagues why error messages are 
reproduceable on only one system.
Installing by compiling the .tar.gz-files does work on Linux, but not on 
Win because make is not avaivable :( I already tried.

The disadvantage of install.packages is (if I am not right tell me 
please), that the package is only installed for the local user (and its 
home-Directory ) who is using R at the moment. In my case I need to 
install for all local users. Is there a way to do that automated with 
install.packages ?

I might think about Uwe's proposal to install the latest R with the 
latest packages.  But there's still that problem with installing for ALL 
users :S
I am unable to do that - even if I can use a local repo.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Erik

On 12/14/2010 06:17 PM, 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
> Subject: [R] Installing R-packages in Windows
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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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