Message-ID: <971536df0903021816h18a5edc2pf80f205305ec512d@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-03-03T02:16:25Z
From: Gabor Grothendieck
Subject: Reading from Google Docs
In-Reply-To: <bd93cdad0903021759p28e86d9bna7c3c1fd8a6b1d90@mail.gmail.com>
Download and install each of R, Rtools and MiKTeX.
Each of these have automated installers so its just a matter of
pressing Enter repeatedly.
You don't have to change your path if you place Rcmd.bat from
http://batchfiles.googlecode.com
anywhere on your path (so it can be found). To see your path try
this from the Windows console:
path
Finally enter into the Windows console:
cd the.directory.containing.RGoogleDocs
Rcmd build RGoogleDocs
Rcmd INSTALL RGoogleDocs_1.0.0.tar.gz
except replace RGoogleDocs_1.0.0.tar.gz with the filename
created by the build.
It should now be installed.
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Farrel Buchinsky <fjbuch at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was able to extract RGoogleDocs with 7-zip. That was when I began to
> appreciate the gravity of what Prof Ripley was saying. I am on a windows xp
> machine and the RGoogleDocs download does not have a windows binary version.
> Instead it has only a source package. I started using the R-admin manual to
> step through the process and got nowhere in about 45 minutes. Then I tried
> using the "automated package building
> service<http://win-builder.r-project.org/>you could try." and got
> nowhere because I did not know what "R CMD build" is.
> Can I find someone to do it for me or can I find someone who will give me a
> couple of basic steps at a time?
>
> I am desperate to say goodbye to individual static Microsoft Access or
> Microsoft Excel spreadsheets being the repository for my data.
>
> Farrel Buchinsky
> Sent from: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States.
>
>
>>>
>> Yes, you can install source packages on Windows: the R-admin manual gives
>> you a detailed guide to the tools that you will need to do so. ?It even
>> tells you about an automated package building service you could try.
>> RGoogleDocs depends on RCurl and XML, both of which I provide Windows
>> binaries for (and are much trickier to install because of their external
>> software requirements).
>>
>>
>> ?Farrel Buchinsky
>>> GrandCentral Tel: (412) 567-7870
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics, ?http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford, ? ? ? ? ? ? Tel: ?+44 1865 272861 (self)
>> 1 South Parks Road, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Fax: ?+44 1865 272595
>>
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