[R] Installing R-packages in Windows

[Uwe Ligges]

On 14.12.2010 23:48, Erik Lukac wrote:
> Hi Mike, Hi Uwe,
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> 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.


It is in inlcuded in the Rtools installer available from Duncan 
Murdoch's webpage. See the R Installation and Administration manual.


> 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 ?

Yes: install to the library folder that is common to all users.

Uwe Ligges






> 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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>> 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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>> MEEEE::::::
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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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