Greetings, I am trying to use install.packages obtained from here http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/install.packages.html My computer has these OS: 64-bit blfs linux R2.15.1
#------------ A) I did the following:- export DIR=/home/stats/R-2.15.0_runTEST190712A export DEST=/home/stats/Rtester cd $DEST ${DIR}/bin/R install.packages(MASS_7.3-17.tar.gz, ${DEST}, repos = getOption("NULL"), contriburl = contrib.url(NULL, type), internal, available = NULL, destdir = ${DEST}, dependencies = NA, type = getOption("pkgType"), configure.args = getOption("configure.args"), configure.vars = getOption("configure.vars"), clean = FALSE, Ncpus = getOption("2", 1L), libs_only = FALSE, INSTALL_opts,--verbose) and this is the result stats [ ~ ]# export DIR=/home/stats/R-2.15.0_runTEST190712A stats [ ~ ]# export DEST=/home/stats/Rtester stats [ ~ ]# cd $DEST stats [ ~/Rtester ]# stats [ ~/Rtester ]# ${DIR}/bin/R install.packages(MASS_7.3-17.tar.gz, ${DEST}, repos = getOption("NULL"), bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' stats [ ~/Rtester ]# contriburl = contrib.url(NULL, type), bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' stats [ ~/Rtester ]# internal, available = NULL, destdir = ${DEST}, bash: internal,: command not found stats [ ~/Rtester ]# dependencies = NA, type = getOption("pkgType"), bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' stats [ ~/Rtester ]# configure.args = getOption("configure.args"), bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' stats [ ~/Rtester ]# configure.vars = getOption("configure.vars"), bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' stats [ ~/Rtester ]# clean = FALSE, Ncpus = getOption("2", 1L), bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' stats [ ~/Rtester ]# libs_only = FALSE, INSTALL_opts,-- verbose) B) I then did it like so export DIR=/home/stats/R-2.15.0_runTEST190712A export DEST=/home/stats/Rtester cd $DEST ${DIR}/bin/R install.packages(MASS_7.3-17.tar.gz, ${DEST}, repos = getOption("NULL"), contriburl = contrib.url(NULL, type), method, available = NULL, destdir = ${DEST, dependencies = NA, type = getOption("source"), clean = FALSE, Ncpus = getOption("2", 1L), libs_only = FALSE, INSTALL_opts, --verbose ) And this results:- stats [ ~/Rtester ]# export DIR=/home/stats/R-2.15.0_runTEST190712A stats [ ~/Rtester ]# export DEST=/home/stats/Rtester stats [ ~/Rtester ]# cd $DEST stats [ ~/Rtester ]# stats [ ~/Rtester ]# ${DIR}/bin/R install.packages(MASS_7.3-17.tar.gz, ${DEST}, repos = getOption("NULL"), bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' stats [ ~/Rtester ]# contriburl = contrib.url(NULL, type), bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' stats [ ~/Rtester ]# method, available = NULL, destdir = ${DEST, > dependencies = NA, type = getOption("source"), > configure.args = getOption("configure.args"), > configure.vars = getOption("configure.vars"), > clean = FALSE, Ncpus = getOption("2", 1L), > libs_only = FALSE, INSTALL_opts, --verbose ) #----------------------- advice would be appreciated sincerely luxInteg ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel