Dear Evguenia
In that case the program you are using to download is being helpful and
unzipping the archive for you. You could replace helpful with irritating
in that sentence. You need to try another downloader.
Michael
On 16/05/2018 18:11, Evguenia Ignatova wrote:
Hello Michael and Duncan,
Thank you for your pointers. The file downloaded without the “gz” extension to
my R working directory folder as a “tar” file. I did not unpack the file. I
tried renaming the file and running the code with “gz” added - please see below.
install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")
Warning: invalid package ‘/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz’
Error: ERROR: no packages specified
Warning message:
In install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source") :
installation of package ‘/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status
IBM support is pretty much useless as they do not offer support to students (I
am a graduate student) and redirect me to the forums when I call them. I posted
in their support forum once and no one ever responds.
However, based on the SPSS add-on instructions, it is clear that I need a
specific version of R. I do not logically see another alternative to installing
the package for this version of R. I am very confused as to why the standard
procedures for installing an R package are not working for the archived version
of this package.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks again,
Evguenia
On May 16, 2018, at 12:33 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/05/2018 11:24 AM, Evguenia Ignatova wrote:
Hello,
I am having difficulty installing the most recent compatible version of the “polycor"
package (0.7-8), for R 3.2.1 on my Mac. Here is the package source page:
https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/
<https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/>.
This version of R is necessary for the R Essentials for the IBM Statistical Package
for Social Sciences (SPSS) extension. I found this thread on the problem
(http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-polycor-package-td4726101.html
<http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-polycor-package-td4726101.html>) but
it does not offer much help as my SPSS version will not recognize the most recent
versions of R.
I'd suggest contacting IBM for support.
The polycor package is not available in the repository of R 3.2.1. Here is the
code I tried to install the package from the archive and the errors I received:
install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar", repos=NULL, type="source")
Warning: invalid package ‘/polycor_0.7-8.tar’
As Michael said, you shouldn't unpack the tar.gz file.
Duncan Murdoch
Error: ERROR: no packages specified
Warning message:
In install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar", repos = NULL, type = "source") :
installation of package ‘/polycor_0.7-8.tar’ had non-zero exit status
install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz";,
repos=NULL, type="source")
Error in download.file(p, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
unsupported URL scheme
Any ideas for other alternatives would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for
your time!
Best,
Evguenia
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On May 16, 2018, at 12:29 PM, Michael Dewey <li...@dewey.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
Dear Evguenia
What happens if you manually download the version you want and run
install.packages() on that file? Your first attempt is on a .tar file not on
the tar.gz file in the archive, not sure if that makes a difference.
Michael
On 16/05/2018 16:24, Evguenia Ignatova wrote:
Hello,
I am having difficulty installing the most recent compatible version of the “polycor"
package (0.7-8), for R 3.2.1 on my Mac. Here is the package source page:
https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/
<https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/>.
This version of R is necessary for the R Essentials for the IBM Statistical Package
for Social Sciences (SPSS) extension. I found this thread on the problem
(http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-polycor-package-td4726101.html
<http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-polycor-package-td4726101.html>) but
it does not offer much help as my SPSS version will not recognize the most recent
versions of R.
The polycor package is not available in the repository of R 3.2.1. Here is the
code I tried to install the package from the archive and the errors I received:
install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar", repos=NULL, type="source")
Warning: invalid package ‘/polycor_0.7-8.tar’
Error: ERROR: no packages specified
Warning message:
In install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar", repos = NULL, type = "source") :
installation of package ‘/polycor_0.7-8.tar’ had non-zero exit status
install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz";,
repos=NULL, type="source")
Error in download.file(p, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
unsupported URL scheme
Any ideas for other alternatives would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for
your time!
Best,
Evguenia
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