Package loading problem

2 messages · Murray Jorgensen, Simon Urbanek

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 1:33 PM #

Hi

I have downloaded and installed R 2.10.1 to my Mac running OS X 10.5.8.

Hardware Overview:

   Model Name:	iMac
   Model Identifier:	iMac7,1
   Processor Name:	Intel Core 2 Duo
   Processor Speed:	2.4 GHz
   Number Of Processors:	1
   Total Number Of Cores:	2
   L2 Cache:	4 MB
   Memory:	1 GB
   Bus Speed:	800 MHz
   Boot ROM Version:	IM71.007A.B03
   SMC Version (system):	1.20f4
   Serial Number (system):	W87438YWX86
   Hardware UUID:	00000000-0000-1000-8000-001B63AA8FF1
[In case this is relevant!]

I have tgz files for all the packages [plus some other files] in 
/Applications/tgz10.1   .
When I attempt to use the R Package Installer and select the tzg10.1 
folder as the "Local Package Directory" the result that I get is

Warning: invalid package ?/Applications?
Error: ERROR: no packages specified

Any help would be welcome!

Cheers,  Murray

Dr Murray Jorgensen      http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html
Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz  majorgensen at ihug.co.nz        Fax 7 838 4155
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Simon Urbanek

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 2:44 PM #

On Jan 12, 2010, at 16:33 , Murray Jorgensen wrote:

You are using the wrong menu item - that menu is for installing  
*package directories* i.e. packages in unpacked form. For .tgz files  
you want to use "Local binary package". But, please, note that  
installing packages that way is only for very, very special cases -  
normally you should use "CRAN (binaries)" instead because that takes  
care of dependencies, downloading, installation etc.

Cheers,
Simon