[R] help with installing tar.gz package

[Uwe Ligges]

On 05.09.2011 13:52, Kay Cecil Cichini wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'd like to install the package "RGoogleDocs ".
> i downloaded to path "E:/R/R-2.13.0/library/RCurl_0.91-0.tar.gz"
>
> i run R from an usb-stick and can't get the install.packages() prompt to
> run correctly - can anyone help with this?


1. Why not use install.packages() to install it from the net?
2. You can download the binary package (zip) file, if network access is 
not available for you on the target machine.
3. If you want to install from sources (the tar.gz), please read the 
manual R Installation and Administration.

Uwe Ligges



>
> thanks,
> kay
>
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Austria.1252 LC_CTYPE=German_Austria.1252
> LC_MONETARY=German_Austria.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=German_Austria.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.13.0
>
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