[R-SIG-Mac] Package loading problem

[Murray Jorgensen]

Hi Simon,

my Mac or Unix skills are not that great so I need a few more clues with
my problem. I read you as suggesting that my tar.gz package files be
uncompressed somehow and then placed somewhere and possibly somehow
letting R know that this has been done.

I think that I may need a little more help with the "somehow",
"somewhere" and "possibly somehow".


Cheers,  Murray Jorgensen

Simon Urbanek wrote:
> 
> On Jan 13, 2010, at 6:17 , Murray Jorgensen wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, Simon.
>>
>> But "Local Binary Package" seems to only accept a single package 
>> selection and I want the lot. This would seem to be very very slow to 
>> load this way.
>>
> 
> Yes, because it's designed for something entirely different -- 
> installing single development package from its sources (developers often 
> do that for testing so they don't have to pack it up in the first place).
> 
> 
>> What I wish to do is to download the package files on one machine 
>> (actually an external drive connected to a PC) and then connect the 
>> drive to the Mac and install them from the drive.
>>
> 
> Well, then why don't you simply unpack them all into your library? 
> That's the fastest and simplest way ...
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
>>
>>
>> Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>> On Jan 12, 2010, at 16:33 , Murray Jorgensen wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I have downloaded and installed R 2.10.1 to my Mac running OS X 10.5.8.
>>>>
>>>> Hardware Overview:
>>>>
>>>> Model Name:    iMac
>>>> Model Identifier:    iMac7,1
>>>> Processor Name:    Intel Core 2 Duo
>>>> Processor Speed:    2.4 GHz
>>>> Number Of Processors:    1
>>>> Total Number Of Cores:    2
>>>> L2 Cache:    4 MB
>>>> Memory:    1 GB
>>>> Bus Speed:    800 MHz
>>>> Boot ROM Version:    IM71.007A.B03
>>>> SMC Version (system):    1.20f4
>>>> Serial Number (system):    W87438YWX86
>>>> Hardware UUID:    00000000-0000-1000-8000-001B63AA8FF1
>>>> [In case this is relevant!]
>>>>
>>>> I have tgz files for all the packages [plus some other files] in 
>>>> /Applications/tgz10.1   .
>>>> When I attempt to use the R Package Installer and select the tzg10.1 
>>>> folder as the "Local Package Directory" the result that I get is
>>>>
>>> You are using the wrong menu item - that menu is for installing 
>>> *package directories* i.e. packages in unpacked form. For .tgz files 
>>> you want to use "Local binary package". But, please, note that 
>>> installing packages that way is only for very, very special cases - 
>>> normally you should use "CRAN (binaries)" instead because that takes 
>>> care of dependencies, downloading, installation etc.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Simon
>>
>> -- 
>> Dr Murray Jorgensen      http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html
>> Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
>> Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz  majorgensen at ihug.co.nz        Fax 7 838 4155
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>>
>>
> 

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Dr Murray Jorgensen      http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html
Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz                                Fax 7 838 4155
Phone  +64 7 838 4773 wk    Home +64 7 825 0441   Mobile 021 0200 8350