[R] caching of lengthy install?

2007-10-04 Thread Randy Heiland
Hello, When I am doing a fairly lengthy installation of some pkg, e.g. install.views("Econometrics"), and then, for whatever reason, the installation craps out, when I attempt to re-do it, it doesn't seem like any info from the previous attempt is cached, i.e. I start from scratch. Is tha

Re: [R] error installing gsl pkg

2007-10-03 Thread Randy Heiland
is version. > > I'll upload a fixed version of the gsl > library to CRAN when I get a minute (patch > from Matt Clegg gratefully acknowledged). > > > HTH > > rksh > > > > On 3 Oct 2007, at 14:24, Randy Heiland wrote: > >> Newbie here (to R) and

[R] error installing gsl pkg

2007-10-03 Thread Randy Heiland
Newbie here (to R) and running Linux... > install.packages("gsl","~/R") ... trying URL 'http://cran.wustl.edu/src/contrib/gsl_1.8-4.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-tar' length 57051 bytes opened URL == downloaded 55Kb * Installing *source* pack