I'm not sure what you have done but using a package requires two steps: 1) installing or downloading the package, 2) loading an installed package.
Since you are using windows you can click on Packages, Install packages, and after choosing a CRAN mirror, selecting the package you want. R will do the rest and tell you that it has installed the package (which it apparently has in your case). Now click on Packages again and choose Load package. Charles Annis, P.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:07 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] installing and using a package i'm trying to learn R. i have no programing experience. i tried to add on a package and just picked "yags". i can't get it to work or get any help. --- > install.packages("yags") Warning in install.packages("yags") : argument 'lib' is missing: using 'C:\Documents and Settings\j\My Documents/R/win-library/2.6' trying URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/yags_4.0-2.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 183779 bytes (179 Kb) opened URL downloaded 179 Kb package 'yags' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked The downloaded packages are in C:\Documents and Settings\j\Local Settings\Temp\RtmpXGE7rd\downloaded_packages updating HTML package descriptions --- then i tried: --- > help("yags") No documentation for 'yags' in specified packages and libraries: you could try 'help.search("yags")' --- help.search doesn't help. when i type library() the result says: --- Packages in library 'C:\Documents and Settings\j\My Documents/R/win-library/2.6': yags Yet Another GEE Solver Packages in library 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.0/library': base The R Base Package boot Bootstrap R (S-Plus) Functions (Canty) class Functions for Classification cluster Cluster Analysis Extended Rousseeuw et al. ... --- i've checked the Admin and Maint manual, but i'm stumped as to how to get yags to actually work. i copied and pasted the example from the html file in the yags folder and after every line that called yags, there was an error message that said: Error: could not find function "yags". ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
