On 13/06/2013 1:26 PM, Raffaello Vardavas 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)

Those are not errors, they are just notes to let you know where it was installed.
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


You haven't shown us any error, but if the package doesn't work, it might be because it wasn't built properly. A .zip file that works on a Mac is unlikely to also work on Windows: Windows uses the .zip extension for *binary* installs.

Duncan Murdoch

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