[R] extracat , JGR, iWidgets install problems

[Uwe Ligges]

On 26.05.2010 15:28, Michael Friendly wrote:
> [Environment: Win XP, R 2.10.1]
>
> I'm trying to install the packages JGR and iWidgets required by the
> extracat package to make the interactive plots
> in the package work. I've tried various things, but nothing seems to
> work. Here is my most recent attempt,
> followed by my sessionInfo().
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions how to make this work?
>
>  >
>  > library(extracat)
> Loading required package: reshape
> Loading required package: plyr
> Loading required package: grid
> Loading required package: MASS
>  > ?irmb
> starting httpd help server ... done
>  > data(housing)
>  > # example 1
>  > irmb(~Type+Infl+Cont+Sat,dset=housing,expected = TRUE,
> + eqwidth=FALSE,base=0.2,mult=2,lab.tv=TRUE,abbr=TRUE)
> iWidgets requires 'JGR' in order to run correctly.
> Please visit
> http://www.rosuda.org/software/
> to download it.>
>  > utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
> trying URL
> 'http://probability.ca/cran/bin/windows/contrib/2.10/JGR_1.7-1.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 483687 bytes (472 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 472 Kb
>
> package 'JGR' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
> The downloaded packages are in
> C:\Documents and Settings\default\Local
> Settings\Temp\RtmpNbWm3Y\downloaded_packages
>  > data(housing)
>  > # example 1
>  > irmb(~Type+Infl+Cont+Sat,dset=housing,expected = TRUE,
> + eqwidth=FALSE,base=0.2,mult=2,lab.tv=TRUE,abbr=TRUE)
> iWidgets requires 'JGR' in order to run correctly.
> Please visit
> http://www.rosuda.org/software/
> to download it.>


You need some JGR.exe from that URL, the package alone does not help. 
Hence just do what the authors of that package wrote in their message:

Please visit
http://www.rosuda.org/software/
to download it.

Best wishes,
Uwe




>
>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> attached base packages:
> [1] grid stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods [8] base
> other attached packages:
> [1] extracat_1.0-1 MASS_7.3-6 reshape_0.8.3 plyr_0.1.9
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.10.1
>  >
>