Installing gregmisc under windows 2000
gregmisc is a bundle, not a package. Its description on CRAN is gregmisc Bundle of gtools, gdata, gmodels, gplots so try one of those packages.
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Robert W. Baer, Ph.D. wrote:
I went through the following steps using RGUI menus to install gregmisc from CRAN. It appears to install but at the end R does not seem to be able to find it. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thankjs, Rob ----------------------------
local({a <- CRAN.packages()
+ install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], available=a, dependencies=TRUE)}) trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/PACKAGES' Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 23113 bytes opened URL downloaded 22Kb trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/gregmisc_2.0.0.zip' Content type `application/zip' length 687958 bytes opened URL downloaded 671Kb bundle 'gregmisc' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
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Delete downloaded files (y/N)? y updating HTML package descriptions
library(gregmisc)
Error in library(gregmisc) : There is no package called 'gregmisc'
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