[R] install package from CRAN

[Steve Lianoglou]

On Jul 28, 2009, at 8:15 PM, cindy Guo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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?


You should use install.packages (note the last "s")... how did you  
call that function to get that error you are showing us?

It looks like you're trying to install the 'mvtnorm' package, and  
you'd do so like this:

install.packages('mvtnorm')

Is that what you did?
  -steve

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