[R] Installing the Zoo Library.

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Rnoobie <jc at stellaconcepts.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ya'll
>
> I'm trying to install the zoo library... I've downloaded about 5 or 6 of
> their releases (inc. the latest one), all of them giving me the same syntax
> error when trying to install...
>
> Anyone seen this problem before? its not the "lib" argument that is the
> problem (ive been installing other packages using this exact format with no
> problem... just zoo is the problem.
>
>
>
>> install.packages("zoo_1.5-8.tar.gz", repos = NULL );

That's about a year old and nowhere near the latest release.  This:

   install.packages("zoo")

works for me from within "R version 2.11.1 Patched (2010-05-31 r52167)"
on Windows Vista and it works this way works too:

C:\tmp2>wget http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/zoo_1.6-4.tar.gz
--10:29:03--  http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/zoo_1.6-4.tar.gz
           => `zoo_1.6-4.tar.gz.1'
Connecting to cran.r-project.org:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
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10:29:06 (302.63 KB/s) - `zoo_1.6-4.tar.gz.1' saved [892174/892174]

C:\tmp2>Rcmd INSTALL zoo_1.6-4.tar.gz
* installing to library 'C:\Users\Gabor\Documents/R/win-library/2.11'
* installing *source* package 'zoo' ...
** R
** demo
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices ...
** testing if installed package can be loaded

* DONE (zoo)

C:\tmp2>