[BioC] Hmisc 3.7.0

[Patrick Aboyoun]

Francesco,
First three points:

1.) Please do not post general questions about R functionality (e.g. proper use of install.packages) to the BioC mailing list. If everybody followed suit, the general R questions would drown out the BioC specific questions.

2.) Hmisc is not a BioC package.

3.) Your subject heading is not descriptive enough, nor does it match the body of your message (Hmisc 3.7.0 vs Hmisc 3.6-1)


To answer your question, you need to specify type = "source" when installing a source package.

install.packages("Hmisc_3.6-1.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")



Cheers,
Patrick



On 4/27/10 11:07 AM, Francesco Mancuso wrote:
> Dear,
> I'm trying to install the Hmisc tar.gz package from R command line.
>
> This is what I'm doing
>   >  install.packages("./Hmisc_3.6-1.tar.gz",
> +
> lib="/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.11/Resources/library/",
> +                  repos=NULL,
> +                  dependencies=TRUE)
>
> And this is the error that R gives:
>   >  require(Hmisc)
> Loading required package: Hmisc
> Error in library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE,
> logical.return = TRUE,  :
>     'Hmisc' is not a valid installed package
>
>
> I'm using R 2.11 on a MacOS X 10.6.3.
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Francesco
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