Message-ID: <49CBAC55.8030901@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2009-03-26T16:24:53Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: installing contributed programs
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20090326090546.02ce0530@mail.ncifcrf.gov>
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