Hi,

Thank you for all your replies. I got it work now.

Cindy

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> wrote:

>
> Cindy,
>
> On 28 July 2009 at 17:15, cindy Guo wrote:
> | 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?
>
> a)  You use install.packages() only from __inside R__. As you got an error
>    from bash, you must have done this from the command prompt.
>
> b)  At the command prompt, use 'R CMD INSTALL mvtnorm' instead.
>
> In either case, you need proper permissions to install in global
> directories,
> so if you can run this, try either 'sudo R' to start R so that
> 'install.packages("mvtnorm")' will succeed, or use 'sudo R CMD INSTALL
> mvtnorm.
>
> Also, if you are on Debian / Ubuntu, you can do
>      sudo apt-get install r-cran-mvtnorm
> as we provide a prebuild version.
>
> Dirk
>
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