[R] Installing package QRMlib

[R. Michael Weylandt]

Do you perhaps need to add install.packages(...,  type="src")? Just a
(untested) guess...

Michael

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:07 PM, DT54321 <deepan.tailor88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am having real problems downloading the package 'QRMlib'. The tar.gz file
> is shown here:
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/QRMlib/
>
> I have downloaded this to my local folder and entered the following command:
>
> nstall.packages("myLocalFolder/QRMlib_1.4.5.1.tar.gz", repos = NULL)
>
> but I am getting the following error message
>
> Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Program Files/R/R-2.14.1/library’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> Warning in install.packages :
>  error 1 in extracting from zip file
> Warning in install.packages :
>  cannot open compressed file 'QRMlib_1.4.5.1.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION', probable
> reason 'No such file or directory'
> Error in install.packages : cannot open the connection
>
> What am I doing wrong??
>
> Thanks
>
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