[R] Access to files downloaded

Erik Iverson eriki at ccbr.umn.edu
Thu May 13 20:56:11 CEST 2010



Joey Zhou wrote:
> Dear All:
> 
> I downloaded "gee" source code and now I am having problem accessing the
> file.
> 
> 
>> download.packages("gee", type="source", destdir="~")
> 
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> trying URL '
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/src/contrib/gee_4.13-14.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 55417 bytes (54 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 54 Kb
>      [,1]  [,2]
> [1,] "gee" "~/gee_4.13-14.tar.gz"
> 
> How to access the file and open it?
> 

Go to destdir and open it?  You can use tar and/or gunzip to unzip it.

You want to look at the source code outside of R yes?



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