Hi, Thank you for all your replies. I got it work now.
Cindy On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > Cindy, > > On 28 July 2009 at 17:15, cindy Guo wrote: > | I have a very basic question about install packages from CRAN on unix. I > | only installed on Windows before. Should I use the command > install.package? > | The error message I got is > | syntax error near unexpected token `"mvtnorm"' > | Is it because I didn't set the path? Which path should I specify? > > a) You use install.packages() only from __inside R__. As you got an error > from bash, you must have done this from the command prompt. > > b) At the command prompt, use 'R CMD INSTALL mvtnorm' instead. > > In either case, you need proper permissions to install in global > directories, > so if you can run this, try either 'sudo R' to start R so that > 'install.packages("mvtnorm")' will succeed, or use 'sudo R CMD INSTALL > mvtnorm. > > Also, if you are on Debian / Ubuntu, you can do > sudo apt-get install r-cran-mvtnorm > as we provide a prebuild version. > > Dirk > > -- > Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. > [[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.