Thanks for getting back to me. Worked like a charm.
Ken kmna...@gmail.com 914-450-0816 (tel) 347-730-4813 (fax) > On Aug 22, 2016, at 11:45 PM, Thomas Mailund <mail...@birc.au.dk> wrote: > > Hi Ken, > > You are trying to install R as a package. That won't work. The .pkg file you > downloaded from https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/ is an installer, > though, so if you just double-click on it, it should take you through the > installation. After that you probably need to install a number of packages, > since the ones you have installed for version 3.2 R won't be available in the > 3.3 installation, but *those* packages you can install using install.packages. > > Cheers > > -- > Thomas Mailund > On 22 August 2016 at 22:17:50, KMNanus (kmna...@gmail.com > <mailto:kmna...@gmail.com>) wrote: > >> I’m a newbie running 3.2.4 on a mac equipped with Yosemite (10.10.5). >> >> I want to update to 3.3.1 and have downloaded the package, but have not been >> able to install it. I’ve tried install.packages("R-3.3.1.tar.gz”) and >> install.packages("R-3.3.1.pkg”) after downloading both files. >> >> I get an error msg - "package ‘R-3.3.1.pkg’ is not available (for R version >> 3.2.4)" >> >> I know this question has shown up on several message boards but I’m having >> trouble understanding the process. >> >> Is there a straightforward way to update my version of R and, if successful, >> will R automatically work with the packages I’ve installed? >> >> Ken Nanus >> kmna...@gmail.com >> 914-450-0816 <tel:914-450-0816> (tel) >> 347-730-4813 <tel:347-730-4813> (fax) >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
