loading packages
Elena:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Elena Moltchanova wrote:
Thanks to Roger for pointing out the packages spweights and sptests to me. I believe they will be quiet useful in my work. But... I can't get them to work! Firstly, I realised that a newer version of R is available. I have now downloaded and installed it. When I try to 'install packages from CRAN' I get: trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org'. Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"), : cannot open URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' although my Netscape has no problems locating it. Whan I unzip the files to the library-subdirectory the command library(spweights) results in Warning message: Package `spweights' contains no R code in: library(pkg, character.only = TRUE)
This happens when one installs a package source as though it was a binary, because library() doesn't find the R code.
although library(help=spweights) produces a window with the desired information. I cannot use 'install package from local zip.-file' because the packages are in .tar.gz-format.
If the files you found are in *.tar.gz format, then they are the source files, not the Windows binaries. The *.zip files are in http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/ and should be installable with the menu item: "Packages" -> "Install package from local zip file", if -> "Install package from CRAN" doesn't fly for you (does for me). Roger
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