Thank you Duncan, the 2nd instructions worked. The both probably would have worked, but I had some code (below) that threw an error. It's designed to automatically set the internet connection to my Windows setting, so R would know the proxy server used at my worksite. I had seen this suggestion in the archives of R-Help. However, this code in the R-2.14.0/etc./Rprofile.site file wasn't being recognized as a valid command, so I commented it out (the code works fine when I run it in the RGUI). Thanks again, Paul
# use the proxy settings for Windows/IE: setInternet2(TRUE) Paul Prew | Statistician 651-795-5942 | fax 651-204-7504 Ecolab Research Center | Mail Stop ESC-F4412-A 655 Lone Oak Drive | Eagan, MN 55121-1560 -----Original Message----- From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:48 AM To: Prew, Paul Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Windows 7 installation of .qz package from SourceForge On 12-02-01 12:07 PM, Prew, Paul wrote: > Hello, I'm trying to install the package metRology from SourceForge. I save > the zip file metRology_0.9-06.tar.gz to my Windows 7 machine, and try to > install the package using the RGUI: Packages> Install packages from local > zip files> metRology_0.9-06.tar.gz. There's no .zip extension, but R seems > to go to work on the installation with a couple warning messages and one > error. tar.gz files are source packages. .zip is a binary image of an installed package. To install a tar.gz, you can't use the menu items. If you have the necessary tools set up properly, it should work to do install.packages(".../path/to/metRology_0.9-06.tar.gz", type="source", repos=NULL) from within R. If that fails (as it likely will if the package has C or Fortran code and you haven't installed the right compilers), you need to get the R tools from <CRAN mirror>/bin/windows/Rtools. You can also install from outside R using "R CMD INSTALL .../path/to/metRology_0.9-06.tar.gz". Duncan Murdoch > The menu Packages> Load Package ... doesn't provide metrology as one of the > choices. > > > ======R session window ======== > >> utils:::menuInstallLocal() > Warning in unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : > error 1 in extracting from zip file > Warning in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) : > cannot open compressed file 'metRology_0.9-06.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION', > probable reason 'No such file or directory' > Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) : > cannot open the connection > > Do I use a utility such as 7-zip to decompress the underlying files, then > re-zip into a file with the .zip extension? > Thank you, Paul > > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31) > Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United > States.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] tcltk stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] Rcmdr_1.8-1 car_2.0-12 nnet_7.3-1 MASS_7.3-16 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] tools_2.14.0 > > Paul Prew | Statistician > 651-795-5942 | fax 651-204-7504 > Ecolab Research Center | Mail Stop ESC-F4412-A > 655 Lone Oak Drive | Eagan, MN 55121-1560 > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: \ This e-mail communication an...{{dropped:11}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: =\ \ This e-mail communication a...{{dropped:12}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
