[R] Installing an Archived Package

[Michael Dewey]

Dear Evguenia

In that case the program you are using to download is being helpful and 
unzipping the archive for you. You could replace helpful with irritating 
in that sentence. You need to try another downloader.

Michael

On 16/05/2018 18:11, Evguenia Ignatova wrote:
> Hello Michael and Duncan,
> 
> Thank you for your pointers. The file downloaded without the “gz” extension to my R working directory folder as a “tar” file. I did not unpack the file. I tried renaming the file and running the code with “gz” added - please see below.
> 
>> install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")
> Warning: invalid package ‘/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz’
> Error: ERROR: no packages specified
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source") :
>    installation of package ‘/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status
> 
> IBM support is pretty much useless as they do not offer support to students (I am a graduate student) and redirect me to the forums when I call them. I posted in their support forum once and no one ever responds.
> 
> However, based on the SPSS add-on instructions, it is clear that I need a specific version of R. I do not logically see another alternative to installing the package for this version of R. I am very confused as to why the standard procedures for installing an R package are not working for the archived version of this package.
> 
> Any other suggestions?
> 
> Thanks again,
> Evguenia
> 
> 
>> On May 16, 2018, at 12:33 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 16/05/2018 11:24 AM, Evguenia Ignatova wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I am having difficulty installing the most recent compatible version of the “polycor" package (0.7-8), for R 3.2.1 on my Mac. Here is the package source page: https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/ <https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/>.
>>> This version of R is necessary for the R Essentials for the IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) extension. I found this thread on the problem (http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-polycor-package-td4726101.html <http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-polycor-package-td4726101.html>) but it does not offer much help as my SPSS version will not recognize the most recent versions of R.
>>
>> I'd suggest contacting IBM for support.
>>
>>> The polycor package is not available in the repository of R 3.2.1. Here is the code I tried to install the package from the archive and the errors I received:
>>>> install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar", repos=NULL, type="source")
>>> Warning: invalid package ‘/polycor_0.7-8.tar’
>>
>> As Michael said, you shouldn't unpack the tar.gz file.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>> Error: ERROR: no packages specified
>>> Warning message:
>>> In install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar", repos = NULL, type = "source") :
>>>    installation of package ‘/polycor_0.7-8.tar’ had non-zero exit status
>>>> install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")
>>> Error in download.file(p, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>>>    unsupported URL scheme
>>> Any ideas for other alternatives would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time!
>>> Best,
>>> Evguenia
>>> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>> ______________________________________________
>>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>
> 
> On May 16, 2018, at 12:29 PM, Michael Dewey <lists at dewey.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Dear Evguenia
> 
> What happens if you manually download the version you want and run install.packages() on that file? Your first attempt is on a .tar file not on the tar.gz file in the archive, not sure if that makes a difference.
> 
> Michael
> 
> On 16/05/2018 16:24, Evguenia Ignatova wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am having difficulty installing the most recent compatible version of the “polycor" package (0.7-8), for R 3.2.1 on my Mac. Here is the package source page: https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/ <https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/>.
>> This version of R is necessary for the R Essentials for the IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) extension. I found this thread on the problem (http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-polycor-package-td4726101.html <http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-polycor-package-td4726101.html>) but it does not offer much help as my SPSS version will not recognize the most recent versions of R.
>> The polycor package is not available in the repository of R 3.2.1. Here is the code I tried to install the package from the archive and the errors I received:
>>> install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar", repos=NULL, type="source")
>> Warning: invalid package ‘/polycor_0.7-8.tar’
>> Error: ERROR: no packages specified
>> Warning message:
>> In install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar", repos = NULL, type = "source") :
>>    installation of package ‘/polycor_0.7-8.tar’ had non-zero exit status
>>> install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")
>> Error in download.file(p, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>>    unsupported URL scheme
>> Any ideas for other alternatives would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time!
>> Best,
>> Evguenia
>> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> 

-- 
Michael
http://www.dewey.myzen.co.uk/home.html