installing contributed programs
On 3/26/2009 10:11 AM, David Covell wrote:
Dear R-help, I'm sure this is contained within the documentation, but I have not yet located it (with good effort nonetheless). I am attempting to install the binary for randomForests. After unpacking the zip, I extracted the contents to my R-2.8.1 folder. However, when I try to execute the command library(randomForest) I get an unable to locate error. Is there another library request that needs to be made? I see that the zip extraction created the RandomForest folder under the R-2.8.1 folder. Is there a way to specify this location within the library command?
You should let R do the installation. The easiest way on Windows (which is implied by the .zip extension on your binary, but you should have said...) is within the Rgui: menu item "Packages|Install package(s) from local zip files" (or even better, install from CRAN). Duncan Murdoch