Re: [R] installing and using a package

2008-01-10 Thread jpolo
> I'm not sure what you have done but using a package requires two steps: > 1) installing or downloading the package, > 2) loading an installed package. > > Since you are using windows you can click on Packages, Install packages, > and > after choosing a CRAN mirror, selecting the package you want.

Re: [R] installing and using a package

2008-01-10 Thread jpolo
> R distinguishes between "installing" and "loading" a package. It looks > like your installation of yags went fine. Now type > library(yags) > to load the package. > now help(yags) should bring up something, as should example(yags) . that helped. thank you john __

Re: [R] installing and using a package

2008-01-10 Thread jpolo
>> -Original Message- > You need to read the "An Introduction to R" manual which was probably > installed when you installed R on your un-named OS (Windows, I take it). yes, i did find what i needed there. thanks you. john __ R-help@r-project.

Re: [R] installing and using a package

2008-01-10 Thread Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:06 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] installing and using a package > > i'm trying to learn R. i hav

Re: [R] installing and using a package

2008-01-10 Thread Peter McMahan
R distinguishes between "installing" and "loading" a package. It looks like your installation of yags went fine. Now type library(yags) to load the package. now help(yags) should bring up something, as should example(yags) . __ R-help@r-project.org mai

Re: [R] installing and using a package

2008-01-10 Thread Charles Annis, P.E.
ssage- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:07 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] installing and using a package i'm trying to learn R. i have no programing experience. i tried to add on a package and just pi

[R] installing and using a package

2008-01-10 Thread jpolo
i'm trying to learn R. i have no programing experience. i tried to add on a package and just picked "yags". i can't get it to work or get any help. --- > install.packages("yags") Warning in install.packages("yags") : argument 'lib' is missing: using 'C:\Documents and Settings\j\My Documents/R/wi

[R] installing and using a package

2008-01-10 Thread jpolo
i'm trying to learn R. i have no programing experience. i tried to add on a package and just picked "yags". i can't get it to work or get any help. --- > install.packages("yags") Warning in install.packages("yags") : argument 'lib' is missing: using 'C:\Documents and Settings\j\My Documents/R/wi