[R] Installing package QRMlib

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 27/02/2012 3:01 PM, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
> Do you perhaps need to add install.packages(...,  type="src")? Just a
> (untested) guess...

That should be type="source", and that should solve the problem, 
assuming Deepan has the necessary tools installed.  If not, he can get 
them from CRAN in the bin/windows/Rtools directory.

Duncan Murdoch

> Michael
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:07 PM, DT54321<deepan.tailor88 at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >  Hi,
> >  I am having real problems downloading the package 'QRMlib'. The tar.gz file
> >  is shown here:
> >
> >  http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/QRMlib/
> >
> >  I have downloaded this to my local folder and entered the following command:
> >
> >  nstall.packages("myLocalFolder/QRMlib_1.4.5.1.tar.gz", repos = NULL)
> >
> >  but I am getting the following error message
> >
> >  Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Program Files/R/R-2.14.1/library’
> >  (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> >  Warning in install.packages :
> >    error 1 in extracting from zip file
> >  Warning in install.packages :
> >    cannot open compressed file 'QRMlib_1.4.5.1.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION', probable
> >  reason 'No such file or directory'
> >  Error in install.packages : cannot open the connection
> >
> >  What am I doing wrong??
> >
> >  Thanks
> >
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