package/ date/ download problem
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, S.McClatchie wrote:
Colleagues I want to download the package "date" from CRAN <http://cran.r- project.org/> to get the R-scripts (for version 1.2.0)
Um. It is package, not scripts, and needs to be installed as a package.
*** date/INDEX *** as.date Coerce Data to Dates date.ddmmmyy Format a Julian date date.mdy Convert from Julian Dates to Month, Day, and Year date.mmddyy Format a Julian date date.mmddyyyy Format a Julian date date.object Date Objects mdy.date Convert to Julian Dates However, the clickable download from ver.1.2-5 gives me only two R files date.R zzz.R
So? All the R code is in those files.
although I do get the help files for as.date.Rd date.ddmmmyy.Rd date.mdy.Rd date.mmddyy.Rd date.mmddyyyy.Rd date.object.Rd mdy.date.Rd
One you got that, you would need to be able to install it as a source package, and I wonder if you have the means to do that, since you are clearly on Windows?
As an alternate method I tried using the install.packages function from R
install.packages("date","C:\Program Files\R
environment\rw1020\library\","http://www.r-project.org",method = "auto", available = NULL, destdir = NULL) Error: syntax error but was not successful (I'm not sure why).
You need to specify paths with \\ or /, not \, in R quoted strings.
And you need to use cran.r-project.org (or a local mirror), not
www.r-project.org (looks like a documentation bug). Why set arguments that
you don't understand rather than use defaults?
If you have wget.exe installed, try just
install.packages("date")
or get the pre-compiled date.zip yourself from the Windows contrib area,
and read the Windows-specific documentation on how to install it
(just install.packages(".../date.zip") should do it).
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