[R] add-on packages

[Uwe Ligges]

Vikas Rawal wrote:

> I want to add RMySQL and RODBC packages to my R installation on redhat 
> linux box. The command install.packages gives following output. What 
> could be wrong?
> 
> 
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> install.packages(RMySQL)
> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
> Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 202145 bytes
> opened URL
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> downloaded 197Kb
> 
> Error in unique(pkgs) : Object "RMySQL" not found
> **********************


There is no *object* RMySQL in your workspace. Quite probably you mean 
the package RMySQL. You have to quote the name:

install.packages("RMySQL")

Uwe Ligges

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