[R] setting the R_Libs gives warning message from Rgui.exe

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Fri Dec 12 15:07:38 CET 2008



Daren Tan wrote:
> Hi, 
>  
> I keep getting the error message and a pop-up window for selecting CRAN mirror server from Rgui.exe after setting the R_Libs
>  
> Warning in install.packages(necessary[!installed], dep = T) :
>   argument 'lib' is missing: using 'D:/Program Files/R/R-2.8.0.libs'

This is a warning that R chooses the first library in the current list, 
and this is obviously the one you intended, isn't it?

> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Error in contrib.url(repos, type) : 

This is the more interesting error. What is the whole message?
You may have chosen a non-working mirror or your internet connectrion is 
broken, or ...or... or
...


Uwe Ligges



>  
> I set the command for Rgui.exe to be 
> "D:\Program Files\R\R-2.8.0\bin\Rgui.exe" --no-restore --no-save --max-mem-size  2000MB R_LIBS="D:/Program Files/R/R-2.8.0.libs"
>  
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) 
> i386-pc-mingw32 
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base     
> other attached packages:
> [1] qvalue_1.1
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.8.0
> 
> 
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