[R] Installing binaries from R-Forge

Wed Nov 9 17:08:27 CET 2011

As Uwe said, you need to read the fine manual and set up your system to be able to compile source packages. On Windows that essentially means installing Rtools and Miktek, and configuring some environment variables.
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Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

"Downey, Patrick" <PDowney at urban.org> wrote:

>I'm sorry. I made a mistake. I accidentally had 2 versions of R open
>and
>got that error message from R-2.10. When I correctly enter the commands
>you
>suggest into R-2.14 I get the same as you. 
>
>However, my installation is filled with errors. I assume the following
>means that I should install each of these packages prior to trying to
>install splm from source. Is that correct?
>
>
>Warning: dependencies 'spam', 'ibdreg', 'lmtest', 'deldir', 'coda',
>'sandwich' are not available
>also installing the dependencies 'maptools', 'spdep', 'plm',
>'bdsmatrix'
>
>trying URL
>'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/src/contrib/maptools_0.8-10.tar.gz'
>Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 813096 bytes (794 Kb)
>opened URL
>downloaded 794 Kb
>
>trying URL
>'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/src/contrib/spdep_0.5-41.tar.gz'
>Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1993974 bytes (1.9 Mb)
>opened URL
>downloaded 1.9 Mb
>
>trying URL 'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/src/contrib/plm_1.2-7.tar.gz'
>Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1084173 bytes (1.0 Mb)
>opened URL
>downloaded 1.0 Mb
>
>trying URL
>'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/src/contrib/bdsmatrix_1.1.tar.gz'
>Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 49623 bytes (48 Kb)
>opened URL
>downloaded 48 Kb
>
>trying URL
>'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/src/contrib/splm_0.9-05.tar.gz'
>Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 52479 bytes (51 Kb)
>opened URL
>downloaded 51 Kb
>
>* installing *source* package 'maptools' ...
>** libs
>ERROR: compilation failed for package 'maptools'
>* removing 'D:/Documents and Settings/pdowney/My
>Documents/R/R-2.14.0/library/maptools'
>* installing *source* package 'bdsmatrix' ...
>** libs
>ERROR: compilation failed for package 'bdsmatrix'
>* removing 'D:/Documents and Settings/pdowney/My
>Documents/R/R-2.14.0/library/bdsmatrix'
>ERROR: dependencies 'maptools', 'deldir', 'coda' are not available for
>package 'spdep'
>* removing 'D:/Documents and Settings/pdowney/My
>Documents/R/R-2.14.0/library/spdep'
>ERROR: dependencies 'bdsmatrix', 'sandwich' are not available for
>package
>'plm'
>* removing 'D:/Documents and Settings/pdowney/My
>Documents/R/R-2.14.0/library/plm'
>ERROR: dependencies 'spdep', 'plm', 'bdsmatrix', 'spam', 'ibdreg',
>'lmtest'
>are not available for package 'splm'
>* removing 'D:/Documents and Settings/pdowney/My
>Documents/R/R-2.14.0/library/splm'
>
>The downloaded packages are in
>        'D:\Documents and Settings\pdowney\Local
>Settings\Temp\RtmpioblL6\downloaded_packages'
>Warning messages:
>1: running command 'D:/DOCUME~1/pdowney/MYDOCU~1/R/R-214~1.0/bin/i386/R
>CMD
>INSTALL -l "D:/Documents and Settings/pdowney/My
>Documents/R/R-2.14.0/library"
>D:\DOCUME~1\pdowney\LOCALS~1\Temp\RtmpioblL6/downloaded_packages/maptools_0
>.8-10.tar.gz' had status 1 
>2: In install.packages("splm", repos = "http://R-Forge.R-project.org", 
>:
>  installation of package 'maptools' had non-zero exit status
>3: running command 'D:/DOCUME~1/pdowney/MYDOCU~1/R/R-214~1.0/bin/i386/R
>CMD
>INSTALL -l "D:/Documents and Settings/pdowney/My
>Documents/R/R-2.14.0/library"
>D:\DOCUME~1\pdowney\LOCALS~1\Temp\RtmpioblL6/downloaded_packages/bdsmatrix_
>1.1.tar.gz' had status 1 
>4: In install.packages("splm", repos = "http://R-Forge.R-project.org", 
>:
>  installation of package 'bdsmatrix' had non-zero exit status
>5: running command 'D:/DOCUME~1/pdowney/MYDOCU~1/R/R-214~1.0/bin/i386/R
>CMD
>INSTALL -l "D:/Documents and Settings/pdowney/My
>Documents/R/R-2.14.0/library"
>D:\DOCUME~1\pdowney\LOCALS~1\Temp\RtmpioblL6/downloaded_packages/spdep_0.5-
>41.tar.gz' had status 1 
>6: In install.packages("splm", repos = "http://R-Forge.R-project.org", 
>:
>  installation of package 'spdep' had non-zero exit status
>7: running command 'D:/DOCUME~1/pdowney/MYDOCU~1/R/R-214~1.0/bin/i386/R
>CMD
>INSTALL -l "D:/Documents and Settings/pdowney/My
>Documents/R/R-2.14.0/library"
>D:\DOCUME~1\pdowney\LOCALS~1\Temp\RtmpioblL6/downloaded_packages/plm_1.2-7.
>tar.gz' had status 1 
>8: In install.packages("splm", repos = "http://R-Forge.R-project.org", 
>:
>  installation of package 'plm' had non-zero exit status
>9: running command 'D:/DOCUME~1/pdowney/MYDOCU~1/R/R-214~1.0/bin/i386/R
>CMD
>INSTALL -l "D:/Documents and Settings/pdowney/My
>Documents/R/R-2.14.0/library"
>D:\DOCUME~1\pdowney\LOCALS~1\Temp\RtmpioblL6/downloaded_packages/splm_0.9-0
>5.tar.gz' had status 1 
>
>10: In install.packages("splm", repos = "http://R-Forge.R-project.org",
> :
>  installation of package 'splm' had non-zero exit status
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de] 
>Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 9:24 AM
>To: Downey, Patrick
>Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>Subject: Re: [R] Installing binaries from R-Forge
>
>
>
>On 09.11.2011 15:15, Downey, Patrick wrote:
>> Hi Uwe,
>>
>> Thanks for your response. I tried your suggestion and got the 
>> following error message:
>>> install.packages("splm",
>> repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org",type="source")
>> Warning message:
>> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>>    package 'splm' is not available
>>
>> I have downloaded the "Package source (.tar.gz)" at the link below, 
>> and it is not an empty file. Not sure what this problem means or what
>
>> I can do about it.
>
>I got
>
>trying URL
>'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/src/contrib/splm_0.9-05.tar.gz'
>Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 52479 bytes (51 Kb) opened URL
>downloaded 51 Kb
>
>* installing *source* package 'splm' ...
>.....
>
>Can you install packages from CRAN?
>
>Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>> Thanks,
>> Mitch
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de]
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 9:10 AM
>> To: Downey, Patrick
>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] Installing binaries from R-Forge
>>
>> The Windows binary seems not to be there. Since this is a development
>
>> platform and there may be various reasons a binary does currently not
>
>> exist, you could install the package from source, just add the 
>> argument type="source"  in your call to install.packages().
>>
>> How to prepare your environment to allow to install source packages
>is 
>> described in the R Installation and Administration manual.
>>
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 09.11.2011 13:39, Downey, Patrick wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm attempting to install the splm package from R-Forge.
>>>
>>> https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=352
>>>
>>> The page says, "In order to successfully install the packages 
>>> provided on R-Forge, you have to switch to the most recent version
>of 
>>> R..." It later says "To install this package directly within R type:
>>> install.packages("splm", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")".
>>>
>>> I just installed R-2.14 and I still get the following error message.
>>>
>>> Warning message:
>>> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>>>     package 'splm' is not available (for R version 2.14.0)
>>>
>>> Can someone please help? I understand that there is relevant 
>>> information in the posting guide, but I'm not a programmer and it's 
>>> difficult for me to understand. I thought I've followed the advice 
>>> from previous posts (notably, upgrade).
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Mitch
>>>
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