[R] [External] rNOMADS package

[Richard M. Heiberger]

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use single slash c:/

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:21 Philip <herd_dog using cox.net> wrote:

> I am struggling to install a fix for the rNOMADS package which reads
> National Weather Service data.  I copied the fix (rNOMADS_2.5.0.tar.gz)
> from an email to a local drive and then tried to install it with the
> command below.  I also tried installing it without the .tar.gz extension
> and without the _2.5.0 extension but I get the same error message.  The
> author, Daniel Bowman, emailed me that the fix should work for R version
> 4.0 or better.
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> Do I need to untar it?
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> install.packages("C://Documents/Ballooning/WeatherBriefing/rNOMADS_2.5.0.tar.gz")
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> Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Owner/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
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> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>
> Warning in install.packages :
>
>   package ‘C://Documents/Ballooning/WeatherBriefing/rNOMADS_2.5.0.tar.gz’
> is not available (for R version 4.0.2)
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