Hi, Thanks for the help. I have now solved the problem of installing the old packages in R2.7. A preliminary check showed that they seemed to work. But I had the following problem with updating : > update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FALSE) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.7 Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.7 Warning message: In open.connection(con, "r") : unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org' on port 80. This must be due to a firewall problem. Is there a way of solving this? Maybe, I should just repeat this process in another pc and internet connection which does not have this firewall problem. I can then copy over the resulting files into my present pc. I have now downloaded the batchfiles folder with the movedir.bat and copydir.bat commands. This appears to offer a much better method of updating libraries. But I am not very sure how I can get started with it. It does not appear to be a regular package to be installed in R. It seems that I need to run it from the windows command window. Can you please show me a small example of how I can get started with it. Thanking You, Ravi
----- Original Message ---- From: Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; r-help@r-project.org Sent: Thursday, 8 May, 2008 4:51:47 PM Subject: Re: [R] help with updating to R2.7 That's not what movedir.bat and copydir.bat in batchfiles do. They will not overwrite any files. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:40 AM, ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Ouch! That really hurt. But I get the point. > Here's what I did now. I copied all the package folders from R2.6, except >for the R.css file, and copied them into the R2.7 folder. > In the process, I overwrote the common files that came with the installation >of R2.7. > Here's the output that I obtained in R2.7 : > > library() > Error in unique.default(ans) : > 2 arguments passed to .Internal(unique) which requires 3 > > > update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FALSE) > Error: could not find function "update.packages" > > My intention with my previous mail was to check and obtain confirmation on >details like what I should do with the R.css file. > But I realise that I should have then restricted myself to that single >question. > That way, I would not be wasting the valuable time of the R list experts, >from whom I have received a lot of help previously. > After reading the FAQ once again, I am guessing that the problem could be a >case of the internet downloading functions failing. > As suggested in the FAQ, I tried the following commands : > > "path_to_R\bin\Rgui.exe" http_proxy=http://gannet/ http_proxy_user=ask > Error: unexpected symbol in ""path_to_R\bin\Rgui.exe" http_proxy" > > "path_to_R\bin\Rgui.exe" http_proxy=http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:80/ > Error: unexpected symbol in ""path_to_R\bin\Rgui.exe" http_proxy" > Should I run the above commands in R, or in the windows command window? > > Thanking You, > Ravi > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > > Sent: Thursday, 8 May, 2008 2:57:07 PM > Subject: Re: [R] help with updating to R2.7 > > > > On 5/8/2008 8:30 AM, ravi wrote: > > I know that it would be best if I reproduced the exact error messages, but >I have tried so many different things now > > and have lost track of the exact error messages at each stage. > > This is not a reasonable request. Rather than trying those two methods > one more time, and recording what goes wrong, you expect someone on the > list to do it for you? If the advice was in the FAQ, presumably it > works for others, so the reason it didn't work for you is likely that > you misinterpreted part of it, or your system has a unique problem, etc. > The *only* way someone could diagnose that would be to see the error > messages. > > You need to use some common sense when you're asking for help. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
