From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Mon Jun 12 18:29:58 2006
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:29:58 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Making a windows packages with zip
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On 6/12/2006 11:25 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> hadley wickham wrote:
>>>
>>> Either the latter or ask the Windows users to install the source package.
>>>
>> 
>> Installing a source package doesn't seem to help:
>> 
>>> install.packages("classifly", repos="http://ggobi.org/r/", type="source")
>> Warning message:
>> installation of package 'classifly' had non-zero exit status in:
>> install.packages("classifly", repos = "http://ggobi.org/r/",
>> 
>> (Unfortunately I don't have access to a windows machine at present -
>> this is what a user reported)
> 
> 
> Oh well, certainly the user forgot to install the required tools as 
> mentioned in the "R Installation and Administration" manual.

Or has the path incorrect while running Rgui.  I normally do all source 
installs from the command line where I have the path set to work 
properly; if I start R from a shortcut, none of the tools are visible, 
so the install.packages command requires the pre-compiled packages.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] Making a windows packages with zip
Duncan Murdoch