The file you had, assist_3.1.2.tar.gz, was not a Windows binary zip file. It was a source tarball. That kind of file needs to be built and installed differently. In order to do that, you need to have all the tools necessary for building packages. This package does not have just pure R code in it, but it has code that needs compiling. You need to determine why the package was removed from CRAN. It may no longer work with current versions of R. You probably need to contact the package maintainer to resolve this problem. Sorry I can't provide more help.
Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA _____ From: Shang Zuofeng [mailto:zuofengsh...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 2:16 PM To: Daniel Nordlund Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN? Thanks, Dan! The package is "assist" which can be downloaded from the following link: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/assist/ The one I chose was assist_3.1.2.tar.gz I have changed this file to .zip and installed it from local directory through R. However, this method is still not working. Thanks a lot for your kind help! Best regards, Zuofeng 2013/8/19 Daniel Nordlund <djnordl...@frontier.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Shang Zuofeng > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 1:26 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN? > > Dear All, > > My project requires the use of a specific R package. However, this R > package has been removed from CRAN. But its older version can be found. > Unfortunately, the older version cannot be used. The thing is, after I > downloaded the older version and unzip it into the library folder of R, > and I input library("package name"), it says that the package "is not a > valid installed package". > > After an intensive search, I found a possible solution: to rebuild this R > package so that it may work properly. I have no idea how to make this > achieved because of my little experience on rebuilding an R package. > > I highly appreciate your help. > > Sincere thanks. > Zuofeng > Well, you haven't told us enough to let us help you. Given that you have a zip file, I will assume for the moment that you are using some variant of MS Windows. I don't think you want to unzip that file directly. I think you want open R, go to the packages menu and choose install package from local zip file. Whether that will work depends on your version of R, your OS, the requirements of the package, why it was removed from CRAN, and a host of other things. If you want more detailed help, you need to provide the "at a minimum" info requested in the posting guide. It would also help if you told us what package you are trying to install. Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA [[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.
