[R] Installing package in windows 7

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Tal Galili wrote:

> You probably need to get your users permissions (in win 7) set properly...

I see no evidence that is the issue ....

That site seems to be offering only source packages.  So in Windows 
you need

install.packages("ei",repos="http://r.iq.harvard.edu", type='source')

This can be done without Rtools in R >= 2.12.0.  Note though that it 
depends on other packages

   mvtnorm, msm, tmvtnorm, ellipse, plotrix, MASS, ucminf, cubature,
   mnormt, foreach

and those have dependencies (at least iterators), so I would install 
them from CRAN first (MASS should already be there).

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> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:26 PM, radagast <haseeb.mahmud at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was trying to install a package called ei from this
>> http://gking.harvard.edu/eiR link . With GCC, r-base-dev and some other R
>> package dependencies installed it works perfect in my Ubuntu Linux system.
>>
>> Now I am trying to install the same in Windows 7 environment. So far my
>> setup is as follows,
>>
>> 1. R installed in home folder (c:\Users\username\R-2.12.1\R. It is set to
>> run as administrator, and the R folder is writable.
>> 2. My working directory is (c:\Users\username\Documents)
>> 3. Rtool is installed in (c:\Rtools)
>>
>> Having this setup,
>>
>> 4. I tried to install it by the command,
>> install.packages("ei",repos="http://r.iq.harvard.edu")
>> This command gives me the following error message.
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Installing package(s) into ?C:\Users\username\Documents/R/win-library/2.12?
>> (as ?lib? is unspecified)
>> Warning message:
>> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>>  package ?ei? is not available
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> After that I have decided to have a try to install it from a local zip
>> file,
>> so I proceeded in the following way,
>>
>>
>> 5. I have downloaded the package ei_0.938.tar.gz, untar it and make a zip
>> file from that. I placed it into my work directory.
>> 6. I opened the terminal (Run > cmd), went to the work directory and tried
>> to run the command R COM INSTALL ei
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> It shows me the following error message,
>> C:\Users\username\Documents>R COM INSTALL ei
>> 'R' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>> operable program or batch file.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> I am not sure what should I do now. Is there anyone to help?
>>
>>
>> _ Rdgst.
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