The first time I did it I had no idea how I did it. Yesterday I struggled
and tried every combination to get it to work and eventually it worked. Once
again I do not know what I did to get it to work. Now today I am trying to
install a version that I downloaded today. And once again I am banging my
head against the wall
When I run Rcmd build RGoogleDocs from the cmd prompt I get
Error: cannot change to directory 'RGoogleDocs'

What error have I perpetrated?

I have changed my starting directory to almost every imaginable directory
and I have put a copy of RGoogleDocs_0.2-2.tar.gz almost everywhere.

I also once got * checking for file 'RGoogleDocs/DESCRIPTION' ... No
and there it stopped



Farrel Buchinsky
Google Voice Tel: (412) 567-7870



On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 22:16, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck@gmail.com>wrote:

> Download and install each of R, Rtools and MiKTeX.
> Each of these have automated installers so its just a matter of
> pressing Enter repeatedly.
>
> You don't have to change your path if you place Rcmd.bat from
> http://batchfiles.googlecode.com
> anywhere on your path (so it can be found).  To see your path try
> this from the Windows console:
>
> path
>
> Finally enter into the Windows console:
>
> cd the.directory.containing.RGoogleDocs
> Rcmd build RGoogleDocs
> Rcmd INSTALL RGoogleDocs_1.0.0.tar.gz
>
> except replace RGoogleDocs_1.0.0.tar.gz with the filename
> created by the build.
>
> It should now be installed.
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Farrel Buchinsky <fjbuch@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was able to extract RGoogleDocs with 7-zip. That was when I began to
> > appreciate the gravity of what Prof Ripley was saying. I am on a windows
> xp
> > machine and the RGoogleDocs download does not have a windows binary
> version.
> > Instead it has only a source package. I started using the R-admin manual
> to
> > step through the process and got nowhere in about 45 minutes. Then I
> tried
> > using the "automated package building
> > service<http://win-builder.r-project.org/>you could try." and got
> > nowhere because I did not know what "R CMD build" is.
> > Can I find someone to do it for me or can I find someone who will give me
> a
> > couple of basic steps at a time?
> >
> > I am desperate to say goodbye to individual static Microsoft Access or
> > Microsoft Excel spreadsheets being the repository for my data.
> >
> > Farrel Buchinsky
> > Sent from: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States.
> >
> >
> >>>
> >> Yes, you can install source packages on Windows: the R-admin manual
> gives
> >> you a detailed guide to the tools that you will need to do so.  It even
> >> tells you about an automated package building service you could try.
> >> RGoogleDocs depends on RCurl and XML, both of which I provide Windows
> >> binaries for (and are much trickier to install because of their external
> >> software requirements).
> >>
> >>
> >>  Farrel Buchinsky
> >>> GrandCentral Tel: (412) 567-7870
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
> >> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> >> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> >> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
> >>
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