[R] install package from CRAN

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Jul 28, 2009, at 8:36 PM, cindy Guo wrote:

> Hi, Steve,
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> I did the same thing:
>  install.packages('mvtnorm')
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `'mvtnorm''
>
> I think what may cause difference is that I am using a unix cluster  
> of my university, so I am not the administrator. Do I need to set  
> the path?

I think I remember R installing into an alternative lib directory in  
your home directory if you didn't have access to your system's R  
library directory automatically. I believe R creates a default  
directory if you don't specify one, otherwise you can make your own R/ 
library directory somewhere you have access to and pass that into the  
install.packages function, like:

install.packages('mvtnorm', lib='/the/path/to/your/personal/R/library')

I'm not sure, though, this actually looks like a different/worse  
problem because the error your get seems to be coming from your unix  
shell .. as if R is doing something like a "system" call but the  
command it's sending is malformed.

-steve

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