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problems installing package XML to a computer without an internet connection

5 messages · Gabor Grothendieck, Brian Ripley, Bob Green

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Bob Green
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Hello,

I am hoping for some advice regarding how I can install the XML 
package which I require to run package tm.

Normally I would use the install package option, however, I have to 
install the packages to a laptop running XP. The laptop does not have 
an internet connection.

Firstly I tried the file -   XML_1.99-0.tar.gz . Below is the error I received

Error in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : error 1 in extracting from zip file
2: In gzfile(file, "r") :
   cannot open compressed file 'XML_1.99-0.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION', 
probable reason 'No such file or directory'

Then I tried XML 1.96-0.zip (from 
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.7/). Below 
is the error I received

Loading required package: XML
Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths())) :
   there is no package called 'proxy'
Error: package/namespace load failed for 'tm'

Any suggestions are appreciated,

Bob
Gabor Grothendieck
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On a computer with an internet connection use your browser to
find and download the XML package zip file.  (Note that this
step does not involve using R.)

Transfer zip file to XP.  Start up R on the XP & use the menus:
   Packages | Install package(s) from local zip file
to install it.
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Bob Green <bgreen at dyson.brisnet.org.au> wrote:
Bob Green
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Hello Gabor,

I believe I used the method you described to download zip files for 
rJava, tm, matrix, filehash etc etc. There is no windows zip file for 
XML, only a gz file which I can't get to load through install local 
zip file. The XML zip file I located on 
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.7/ resulted 
in the namespace error.


regards

Bob
At 01:23 PM 11/01/2009, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
Brian Ripley
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On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Bob Green wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Windows, I presume.

            

      
      
      
    

        
What does 'try' mean?  That would work if you used Rcmd INSTALL on it, 
or install.packages(type="source").

            

      
      
      
    

        
Why from 2.7?  What version is your R?

            

      
      
      
    

        
So that worked: it is 'proxy' you are missing.  From the DESCRIPTION 
file

package: tm
Title: Text Mining Package
Version: 0.3-3
Date: 2008-12-20
Author: Ingo Feinerer, with contributions from Christian Buchta, Kurt 
Hornik, David Meyer, and Fridolin Wild
Maintainer: Ingo Feinerer <feinerer at logic.at>
Depends: R (>= 2.7.0), filehash, Matrix, methods, Snowball, XML
Imports: proxy
Suggests: Rgraphviz, Rmpi, Rstem (>= 0.3-1), snow

still you may need packages filehash, Matrix, methods, Snowball and 
proxy.

I suggest getting those from bin/windows/contrib/2.7/ on CRAN, and 
installing from the 'Local zip file' menu optipn.

            

      
      
      
    

        
Read the posting guide, remember to tell us what we asked for 'at a 
minumum' and what you actually did.

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Brian,

Thank you for your reply and advice. I hope that I did not give the 
impression that your build was the cause of the difficulties I 
experienced. If so, I apologise for this.

Your email was helpful in alerting me to the need to install 'proxy' 
and I subsequently located the current version zip file at:
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.8/

Once I copied this version of the XML file that you wrote, the 
installation worked without problem.

Thank you again,

regards

Bob

        
At 06:03 PM 11/01/2009, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: