Hi, Steve,

Thanks for the response.

I did the same thing:
 install.packages('mvtnorm')
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `'mvtnorm''

I think what may cause difference is that I am using a unix cluster of my
university, so I am not the administrator. Do I need to set the path?

Cindy


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Steve Lianoglou <
mailinglist.honeypot@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 28, 2009, at 8:15 PM, cindy Guo wrote:
>
> Hi,
>>
>> I have a very basic question about install packages from CRAN on unix. I
>> only installed on Windows before. Should I use the command
>> install.package?
>> The error message I got is
>> syntax error near unexpected token `"mvtnorm"'
>> Is it because I didn't set the path? Which path should I specify?
>>
>
>
> You should use install.packages (note the last "s")... how did you call
> that function to get that error you are showing us?
>
> It looks like you're trying to install the 'mvtnorm' package, and you'd do
> so like this:
>
> install.packages('mvtnorm')
>
> Is that what you did?
>  -steve
>
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