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3 messages · Hongli Li, Thomas Lumley, Brian Ripley

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Hongli Li
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Hi,
I am trying to install "Rstrams" package, I have download the Rstreams_1.1-2.tar.gz in my computer and I tried the following 
1. install.packages("Rstreams",lib=.lib.loc,"c:/R/package/Rstreams_1.1-2.tar.gz" )
  
 I got 
      'lynx' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
       operable program or batch file.
       Error in httpclient(url, check.MIME.type = TRUE, file = destfile) : 
               Not an http:// URL
       In addition: Warning messages: 
       1: wget not found 
       2: cmd execution failed with error code 1 in: shell("lynx -help", invisible = TRUE) 

2.install.packages("Rstreams", .lib.loc, CRAN = getOption("CRAN"), method = "auto", available =  NULL,.lib.loc)

   I got 
     'lynx' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
      operable program or batch file. 
      Error in httpclient(url, check.MIME.type = TRUE, file = destfile) : 
            Not an http:// URL
     In addition: Warning messages: 
     1: wget not found 
     2: cmd execution failed with error code 1 in: shell("lynx -help", invisible = TRUE) 

it seems no matter what I use, I always get the same error  message

What should I do?

Thanks

Hongli Li



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Thomas Lumley
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Hongli Li wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
If you want to download automatically you need wget or lynx. You can find
wget at http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/wgetwin.html

If you want to install a package you have downloaded separately you need
to
a) download the right package (the .zip binary, not the .tar source)
b) read the documentation of install.packages() to find out how to specify
a package file rather than a website: the file is the first argument to
install.packages() and the CRAN argument needs to be NULL.


	-thomas

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On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Thomas Lumley wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
Actually, the preferred version of wget is at the the location on the help
page for install.packages.  So all Hongli Li had to do was read the
documentation!

Actually reading the help page is always a good idea before posting: it
can save a great deal of time.