gb <gb at stat.umu.se> writes:
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Robert Schick wrote:
Hi- I'm a complete newbie trying to install R and the 'tree' package on a linux box. I installed R successfully using an RPM for Redhat 6.2. I downloaded the tree*.gz file, ran tar, the fired up R. When I'm at the
prompt in R, and type 'R INSTALL /usr/apps/tree' I get: 'Error: Syntax
error' I want tree to end up in the default directory so I did not specify any different paths. Is my syntax wrong? Thanks.
Correct syntax, wrong place: Try it at the shell prompt, eventually as root.
Goran is correct that you need to run R INSTALL at the shell prompt. If you want to install the library in a private collection you can add the -l flag to specify the location of the library. You should then establish an environment variable R_LIBS as a colon-separated list of directories in which to look for libraries. The call to R INSTALL would look like R INSTALL /usr/apps/tree -l ~/.Rlibs or something like that. Note that with recent versions of R you do not need to expand the tar file. You can give the name of the tar file to the INSTALL command. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._