Problems with fEcofin

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Mon Nov 19 10:10:50 CET 2007


Dear Piotr,

sorry for the late reply;
it seems other Rmetrics-core members have been even more busy
than I...

In principle you should *NOT* ask such questions to the core
team, but rather a mailing list, either
-  R-help {most appropriate in the present case},
   i.e. send to  R-help at r-project.org , or

-  R-SIG-finance


>>>>> "PC" == Piotr Chmielowski <piotr.chmielowski at reechaim.com>
>>>>>     on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:20:48 -0000 writes:

    PC> Dear Rmetrics Team, I am having problems downloading the
    PC> fEcofin binary for windows. I have turned off all
    PC> anti-virus software on my pc, set the sites to trusted
    PC> sites in ie, and still cannot download

    PC> http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/fEcofin_260.72.zip

The file there is perfect.

    PC> from either the eth site, or any other mirrors that I
    PC> tried, about ten, elsewhere in Europe and UK.

    PC> Internet explorer just comes back with "Internet
    PC> Explorer cannot display the webpage". The pdf reference
    PC> manual and the package source download fine, but of
    PC> course installing the package from source under Win is a
    PC> challenge.

Well, that's definitely a problem with your setup of M$ Windows,
Explorer etc.  
You should  use Firefox instead - also for other reasons.

But infact, you should be able to just
say
	install.packages("fEcofin")
in your R session,
and R would use the proper tools to download the file and
install it.

If that does not work directly, please read 
the help page for 'install.packages' and look at its references.

Regards,
Martin <Maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>  http://stat.ethz.ch/people/maechler
Seminar für Statistik, ETH Zürich  LEO C16	Leonhardstr. 27
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