What evidence do you have that the package did not install? The only differences in the output that you show is that in the second case you get extra output about downloading the package which does not apply in the first case since you did not need to download the package.
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Raffaello Vardavas <r_varda...@hotmail.com > wrote: > Dear All, > > this may be a trivial problem. A collaborator has created an R package for > internal use (not available on CRAN). This installs and works fine on my > Mac but fails to install on windows. > > > > When I install the packagein windows by browing and pointing to the .zip > file I get the following error: > > > > > > install.packages("C:/Users/rvardava/RiskPerceptionNetworks/Tools/nirm/nirm.tags/nirm_0.6.5.zip", > repos = NULL) > Installing package(s) into C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.3/library > (as lib is unspecified) > > > install.packages("C:/Users/rvardava/RiskPerceptionNetworks/Tools/nirm/nirm.tags/nirm_0.6.4.zip", > repos = NULL) > Installing package(s) into C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.3/library > (as lib is unspecified) > > > > However if I install a package from CRAN (e.g. deSolve) the same warning > appears initially - but it continues and installs the package with no > problems: > > > > install.packages("deSolve") > Installing package(s) into C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.3/library > (as lib is unspecified) > trying URL ' > http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/deSolve_1.10-6.zip' > Content type 'application/zip' length 2659517 bytes (2.5 Mb) > opened URL > downloaded 2.5 Mb > > package deSolve successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > The downloaded binary packages are in > C:\Users\rvardava\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpO8Ul1g\downloaded_packages > > > > Please help. > > > > Thanks. > > Raff > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. 538...@gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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