[R] tikzDevice not available

[Uwe Ligges]

On 17.08.2012 12:37, nikos giallousis wrote:
> Hello, many thanks for the advice.
>
> Unfortunately I did not mention that my os is Windows 7. I am sorry for
> that.
>
> Some feedback here?

Yes: R-forge seems to support the current release version of R only re. 
binaries. If you want it for an old release of R, install from sources, 
i.e.:
install.packages("tikzDevice", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org", 
type="source")

Uwe Ligges



>
>> install.packages("tikzDevice", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
> Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Users/N31k/Documents/R/win-library/2.14’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.14
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>    package ‘tikzDevice’ is not available (for R version 2.14.2)
>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
> Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type"))
> :
>    cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip file
> 2: In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) :
>    cannot open compressed file 'tikzDevice_0.6.2.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION',
> probable reason 'No such file or directory'
>
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