The first time I did it I had no idea how I did it. Yesterday I struggled and tried every combination to get it to work and eventually it worked. Once again I do not know what I did to get it to work. Now today I am trying to install a version that I downloaded today. And once again I am banging my head against the wall When I run Rcmd build RGoogleDocs from the cmd prompt I get Error: cannot change to directory 'RGoogleDocs'
What error have I perpetrated? I have changed my starting directory to almost every imaginable directory and I have put a copy of RGoogleDocs_0.2-2.tar.gz almost everywhere. I also once got * checking for file 'RGoogleDocs/DESCRIPTION' ... No and there it stopped Farrel Buchinsky Google Voice Tel: (412) 567-7870 On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 22:16, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com>wrote: > Download and install each of R, Rtools and MiKTeX. > Each of these have automated installers so its just a matter of > pressing Enter repeatedly. > > You don't have to change your path if you place Rcmd.bat from > http://batchfiles.googlecode.com > anywhere on your path (so it can be found). To see your path try > this from the Windows console: > > path > > Finally enter into the Windows console: > > cd the.directory.containing.RGoogleDocs > Rcmd build RGoogleDocs > Rcmd INSTALL RGoogleDocs_1.0.0.tar.gz > > except replace RGoogleDocs_1.0.0.tar.gz with the filename > created by the build. > > It should now be installed. > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Farrel Buchinsky <fjb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was able to extract RGoogleDocs with 7-zip. That was when I began to > > appreciate the gravity of what Prof Ripley was saying. I am on a windows > xp > > machine and the RGoogleDocs download does not have a windows binary > version. > > Instead it has only a source package. I started using the R-admin manual > to > > step through the process and got nowhere in about 45 minutes. Then I > tried > > using the "automated package building > > service<http://win-builder.r-project.org/>you could try." and got > > nowhere because I did not know what "R CMD build" is. > > Can I find someone to do it for me or can I find someone who will give me > a > > couple of basic steps at a time? > > > > I am desperate to say goodbye to individual static Microsoft Access or > > Microsoft Excel spreadsheets being the repository for my data. > > > > Farrel Buchinsky > > Sent from: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States. > > > > > >>> > >> Yes, you can install source packages on Windows: the R-admin manual > gives > >> you a detailed guide to the tools that you will need to do so. It even > >> tells you about an automated package building service you could try. > >> RGoogleDocs depends on RCurl and XML, both of which I provide Windows > >> binaries for (and are much trickier to install because of their external > >> software requirements). > >> > >> > >> Farrel Buchinsky > >>> GrandCentral Tel: (412) 567-7870 > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > >> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > >> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > >> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > >> > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
