[R] R-1.7.0 WIN2000 INSTALL

[Sundar Dorai-Raj]

Thomas Stockton wrote:
> Sundar,
> 
> Looks like Perl is in the PATH before ".". ?
> 
> Tom
> 


It seems that this was the problem and R was installed successfully. 
However, none of the Recommended packages were installed (i.e. those 
packages found in D:\R\R-1.7.0\src\library\Recommended\*.tgz). And if I 
try to use install.packages I get:

 > install.packages("nlme")
trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.7/PACKAGES'
Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 8762 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 8762 bytes

Warning message:
No package "nlme" on CRAN. in: download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, 
available = available,
 >


Regards,
Sundar