[R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 08/07/2013 01:15, Lucy Leigh wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a source package that isn't available as a windows zip file. Can
> anyone explain to me how I can install this on my windows R platform?

I am surprised that is all you saw, but running

Rcmd INSTALL PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz

at a shell command line should show you more.

Note that version 3.0.20 does install on Windows: see 
http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_PReMiuM.html .  But 
it does need BOOSTLIB set to your local boost installation (and I 
suspect you do not have one).  The suggests that using the winbuilder 
service might well work.

Package-specific questions are best addressed to the maintainer.

> When I use the following code:
>   install.packages("PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz", type = "source")
>
>
> I get this error message:
>
>
>
> * installing *source* package 'PReMiuM' ...
> ** libs
>
> *** arch - i386
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'PReMiuM'
> * removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.1/library/PReMiuM'
> Warning messages:
> 1: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.1/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l
> "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.1\library" "PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz"' had status
> 1
> 2: In install.packages("PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz", type = "source") :
>    installation of package ‘PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit
> status
>>
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can give me,
> Lucy
>
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