[R] how to install packages

Shige Song sgsong at ucla.edu
Mon Sep 18 10:59:52 CEST 2000


After some playing around, I think I know how to do it now. By the way,
R seems to be much faster than Splus, at least under WinNT4. This is
quite amazing!

Best,
Shige

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:59:36 -0700
Shige Song <sgsong at ucla.edu> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I am trying to fiugre out how install packages on the base system. The
> "FAQ" tells me that more details can be obtained  by typing
> "help(install.packages)", but my R system gives me an error message when
> I did that. I also tried "help(PACKAGES)", "help(install.packages())",
> but none worked. Anybody can help? I am running R 1.1.1 on WinNT 4.
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Best,
> Shige Song
> Department of Sociology, UCLA
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