[R] Installing an Archived Package

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 16/05/2018 2:15 PM, Evguenia Ignatova wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> I did not expect the browser to automatically extract, so I changed the Safari setting and it downloaded as a “gz” file.
> 
> It is clear now that R is finding the package but I get a different error as follows:
> 
>> install.packages("polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")
> ERROR: dependency ‘mvtnorm’ is not available for package ‘polycor’
> * removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library/polycor’

You can run

install.packages("mvtnorm")

and it will be installed from CRAN.  It's unfortunate that 
install.packages() doesn't do this automatically when you install a 
tar.gz file, but that's the way it is.

Duncan Murdoch

> 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
> 
> I get the same error when I try Rui’s way of accessing the file.
> 
> Suggestions online are along the lines of installing the dependencies separately, but I am not sure how to go about separating the file into its dependencies?
> 
> Thank you so much!
> 
> Evguenia
> 
>> On May 16, 2018, at 1:58 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu> wrote:
>>
>> You can tell Macintosh not to automatically unpack tar.gz files.
>>
>> https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/961/how-to-stop-safari-from-unzipping-files-after-download <https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/961/how-to-stop-safari-from-unzipping-files-after-download>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:24 AM, Evguenia Ignatova
>> <evg.ignatova at gmail.com <mailto:evg.ignatova at gmail.com>> 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/> <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> <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
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