[R] help with installing tar.gz package

[Kay Cecil Cichini]

i finally found the XML.zip:
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.14/

and thanks to you pointing me at the URL of the RCurl.zip:
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/RCurl_1.6-10.1.zip

i was able to to install the wanted RGooglesDoc package successfully by call
install.packages("E:/R/R-2.13.0/library/RGoogleDocs_0.5-0.tar.gz",  
repos=NULL, type="source")

thanks and sorry for my clumsiness,
kay


Zitat von Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:

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>
> On 05.09.2011 14:52, Kay Cecil Cichini wrote:
>> internet connection exists - dont' know why, but i can't set to CRAN
>> mirror - maybe because i run R from an usb-stick, firewall or whatever.
>
> Probably not correctly configured proxy setting?
>>
>> thus, install.packages("RCurl_0.91-0.tar.gz") won't work.
>
> install.packages("RCurl"), to be precise
>
>>
>> a zip-file does not exist, only the tar.gz file.
>
> It exists. The most recent version of RCurl for Windows for R-2.13.x  
> is available from "CRAN extras" which expands to:
>
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/RCurl_1.6-10.1.zip
>
> I wonder where you got that ancient version of RCurl (0.91-0) from?
>
>
>
>> so i tried to install from the source that i downloaded to:
>> "E:/R/R-2.13.0/library/RCurl_0.91-0.tar.gz"
>>
>> i tried to apply the manual for R Installation and Administration but
>> admittedly doesn't grasp it - any help how to achieve this would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>
>
> After installing the prerequisites as mentioned in that manual, you could do
>
> install.packages("/path/to/RCurl_0.91-0.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")
>
> but RCurl won't install out of the box (therefore the version on  
> "CRAN extras" rather than an auto-built one on regular CRAN - the  
> former is manually tweaked by Brian Ripley).
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>> kay
>>
>>
>> Zitat von Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05.09.2011 13:52, Kay Cecil Cichini wrote:
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> i'd like to install the package "RGoogleDocs ".
>>>> i downloaded to path "E:/R/R-2.13.0/library/RCurl_0.91-0.tar.gz"
>>>>
>>>> i run R from an usb-stick and can't get the install.packages() prompt to
>>>> run correctly - can anyone help with this?
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. Why not use install.packages() to install it from the net?
>>> 2. You can download the binary package (zip) file, if network access
>>> is not available for you on the target machine.
>>> 3. If you want to install from sources (the tar.gz), please read the
>>> manual R Installation and Administration.
>>>
>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> kay
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>> R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
>>>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Austria.1252 LC_CTYPE=German_Austria.1252
>>>> LC_MONETARY=German_Austria.1252
>>>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=German_Austria.1252
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>>>
>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>> [1] tools_2.13.0
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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