Message-ID: <4056389d0902260834i24ba780fvc60ce0a0274d9ba2@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-02-26T16:34:31Z
From: eric lee
Subject: which zip file is the emulator package?
In-Reply-To: <49A6C1A8.3010108@stats.uwo.ca>
Thanks, Duncan. The BACCO package worked.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 2/26/2009 11:08 AM, eric lee wrote:
>>
>> Hi. ?I'm trying to run the elliptic package on my computer (windows
>> platform, version 2.7.2). ?I downloaded the elliptic package zip file
>> from
>>
>> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/
>>
>> and installed it, but it says that it needs the "emulator" package.
>> Can you tell me where to download this? ?The only similar package by
>> name is 'emu_4.0.zip' which is not 'emulator.' ?I also can't have R
>> automatically install this by clicking on 'packages' and 'install
>> package' because it gives me an error message.
>>
>
> The current release gives no error if you ask it to install elliptic, and it
> automatically finds that emulator is in the BACCO bundle. ?You didn't say
> what the error message was that you saw, so I can't tell you whether it was
> due to a problem on CRAN or with what you asked for.
>
> Generally speaking it's easier and less error-prone to just ask R to install
> a package, rather than manually downloading and installing one.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>