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problem installing R packages in Windows Vista

3 messages · norman Maiwashe, Brian Ripley, Gabor Grothendieck

norman Maiwashe
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** High Priority **

I have recently installed the R program in Windows Vista. However, I am experiencing problem installing some of the packages. Specifically, I wanted to install BRugs package running R as an administrator. I issued the following command in R and received the following error message.
Warning in install.packages("BRugs"):
  argument 'lib' is missing: 'C\Users\norman\Documents/R/win-library/2.8'
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran-za.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.8 
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.8 
Warning message: package 'BRugs' is not available

Your prompt response will be greatly appreciated.



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Brian Ripley
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This is not a problem in R, but with Internet access from your system.
It is an FAQ, see
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#The-Internet-download-functions-fail_002e

Another possibility is to download the file
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.8/BRugs_0.4-2.zip
and use the menu item to install from a local zip file.
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, norman Maiwashe wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Please make it a high priority to read the posting guide and rw-FAQ: see 
the footer to this message.

            

      
      
      
    

        
I don't see an *error* message here.  (warning != error .)  It is warning 
you of a problem on your machine or, possibly, the system you are 
accessing.

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Gabor Grothendieck
    

    

      
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Check out:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-October/176486.html

        
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 3:04 AM, norman Maiwashe <norman at arc.agric.za> wrote: