[R] [External] rNOMADS package

[William Dunlap]

Add the arguments type="source" and repos=NULL to your call to
install.packages().  repos=NULL means that this is a local file, not
something to download from a repository.

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 8:31 AM Richard M. Heiberger <rmh using temple.edu> wrote:
>
> incorrect double slash c://
> use single slash c:/
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:21 Philip <herd_dog using cox.net> wrote:
>
> > I am struggling to install a fix for the rNOMADS package which reads
> > National Weather Service data.  I copied the fix (rNOMADS_2.5.0.tar.gz)
> > from an email to a local drive and then tried to install it with the
> > command below.  I also tried installing it without the .tar.gz extension
> > and without the _2.5.0 extension but I get the same error message.  The
> > author, Daniel Bowman, emailed me that the fix should work for R version
> > 4.0 or better.
> >
> >
> >
> > Do I need to untar it?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > install.packages("C://Documents/Ballooning/WeatherBriefing/rNOMADS_2.5.0.tar.gz")
> >
> >
> >
> > Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Owner/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
> >
> > (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> >
> > Warning in install.packages :
> >
> >   package ‘C://Documents/Ballooning/WeatherBriefing/rNOMADS_2.5.0.tar.gz’
> > is not available (for R version 4.0.2)
> >
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