Re: [R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

2013-07-12 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13-07-12 3:26 PM, Michael Dewey wrote: At 23:49 11/07/2013, Lucy Leigh wrote: Hi everyone, Thanks to everyone for all the advice. I should have been clearer in my first email, the version of 'PReMiuM' I have is not the one available on CRAN at the moment, but a version I was sent by one of

Re: [R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

2013-07-12 Thread Michael Dewey
At 23:49 11/07/2013, Lucy Leigh wrote: Hi everyone, Thanks to everyone for all the advice. I should have been clearer in my first email, the version of 'PReMiuM' I have is not the one available on CRAN at the moment, but a version I was sent by one of the authors, Silvia Liveriani, with a sma

Re: [R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

2013-07-11 Thread Lucy Leigh
Hi everyone, Thanks to everyone for all the advice. I should have been clearer in my first email, the version of 'PReMiuM' I have is not the one available on CRAN at the moment, but a version I was sent by one of the authors, Silvia Liveriani, with a small bug fixed. I don't know if this is the

Re: [R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

2013-07-11 Thread David Winsemius
On Jul 11, 2013, at 1:37 AM, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 11/07/13 17:57, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> On 11/07/2013 01:22, David Winsemius wrote: >>> >>> On Jul 10, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Lucy Leigh wrote: >>> Hi, I have had a look at the manual but it makes no sense to me. I have down

Re: [R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

2013-07-11 Thread William Dunlap
p@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows > > > On Jul 10, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Lucy Leigh wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have had a look at the manual but it makes no sense to me. I have > > downloaded RTools, and the InnoSetup,

Re: [R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

2013-07-11 Thread Rolf Turner
On 11/07/13 17:57, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On 11/07/2013 01:22, David Winsemius wrote: >> >> On Jul 10, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Lucy Leigh wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I have had a look at the manual but it makes no sense to me. I have >>> downloaded RTools, and the InnoSetup, >>> but I don't understand how

Re: [R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

2013-07-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 11/07/2013 01:22, David Winsemius wrote: On Jul 10, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Lucy Leigh wrote: Hi, I have had a look at the manual but it makes no sense to me. I have downloaded RTools, and the InnoSetup, but I don't understand how to use these to install my package? Am I meant to be writing comma

Re: [R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

2013-07-10 Thread David Winsemius
On Jul 10, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Lucy Leigh wrote: > Hi, > I have had a look at the manual but it makes no sense to me. I have > downloaded RTools, and the InnoSetup, > but I don't understand how to use these to install my package? Am I > meant to be writing commands > in R itself, or in these other

Re: [R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

2013-07-10 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Lucy, you have stepped into something of a mess. Although you just want to install the package to use it, installing from source often (but not always) requires the ability to compile C, C++, or Fortran, and discussions about development really belong on the R-devel mailing list. The steps neede

Re: [R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

2013-07-10 Thread Lucy Leigh
Hi, I have had a look at the manual but it makes no sense to me. I have downloaded RTools, and the InnoSetup, but I don't understand how to use these to install my package? Am I meant to be writing commands in R itself, or in these other things I've downloaded? Lucy >>> Erin Hodgess 9/07/2013 5:3

Re: [R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

2013-07-09 Thread Erin Hodgess
Hi Lucy: Did you look at the R Installation and Administration manuals? There's a good section about installing on Windows via Rtools. On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Lucy Leigh wrote: > Great thank you - are there any resources that step through how to use > RTools to compile the > source p

Re: [R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

2013-07-08 Thread Lucy Leigh
Great thank you - are there any resources that step through how to use RTools to compile the source package and install it in R on (64-bit windows) ? >>> Berend Hasselman 8/07/2013 6:38 pm >>> On 08-07-2013, at 02:15, "Lucy Leigh" wrote: > Hi, > I have a source package that isn't available as

Re: [R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

2013-07-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 08/07/2013 01:15, Lucy Leigh wrote: Hi, I have a source package that isn't available as a windows zip file. Can anyone explain to me how I can install this on my windows R platform? I am surprised that is all you saw, but running Rcmd INSTALL PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz at a shell command line s

Re: [R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

2013-07-08 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 08-07-2013, at 02:15, "Lucy Leigh" wrote: > Hi, > I have a source package that isn't available as a windows zip file. Can > anyone explain to me how I can install this on my windows R platform? > When I use the following code: > install.packages("PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz", type = "source") >

Re: [R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

2013-07-08 Thread Zsurzsa Laszlo
have you checked the bit version !? Which R do you use? 32 or 64 bit? --- - László-András Zsurzsa, - - Msc. Infromatics, Technical University Munich, - ---

[R] Help with installing a .tar.gz package on windows

2013-07-08 Thread Lucy Leigh
Hi, I have a source package that isn't available as a windows zip file. Can anyone explain to me how I can install this on my windows R platform? When I use the following code: install.packages("PReMiuM_3.0.21.tar.gz", type = "source") I get this error message: * installing *source* packa