Hi,

Thank you for asking. Actually I downloaded the tar.gz file as Mark said and
used R CMD INSTALL -l  .  package.tar.gz to install. I didn't know I can
download CRAN packages from the internet.

I am not a unix person, so I struggled a lot with the commands on unix and
directories especially. I don't know how to deal with it when I don't have
enough privilege.
Cindy



On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:33 PM, stephen sefick <ssefick@gmail.com> wrote:

> What was the problem- out of curiosity?
>
> Stephen Sefick
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:23 PM, cindy Guo<cindy.guo3@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >>
> >> --
> >> Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
> >>
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