[R] help with installing tar.gz package

[Kay Cecil Cichini]

internet connection exists - dont' know why, but i can't set to CRAN  
mirror - maybe because i run R from an usb-stick, firewall or whatever.

thus, install.packages("RCurl_0.91-0.tar.gz") won't work.

a zip-file does not exist, only the tar.gz file.

so i tried to install from the source that i downloaded to:
"E:/R/R-2.13.0/library/RCurl_0.91-0.tar.gz"

i tried to apply the manual for R Installation and Administration but  
admittedly doesn't grasp it - any help how to achieve this would be  
greatly
appreciated.

kay


Zitat von Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:

>
>
> 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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