[R] install SPIA package on Windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Erika Melissari wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have read the suggested manuals, but I do not manage to install the SPIA 
> package yet.
> I have installed Rtools28.exe following the indications, I have put the 
> package tar.gz in c:\ directory and I have extracted it by using command 
> window on c:\ folder and the following instruction
>
> tar xvfz SPIA_0.0.1.tar.gz.
>
> Then a new folder has been created, named SPIA, in c:\ containing extracted 
> files.

You did not INSTALL the package.  However, this has nothing to do with the 
*win-builder* service I pointed you to.

> I have opened Rgui and I have typed
>
> library(SPIA,lib.loc="c:/")
>
> but unsuccessfully. This is the error message I have received:
>
>> library(SPIA, lib.loc="c:/")
> Error in library(SPIA, lib.loc = "c:/") :
> 'SPIA' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0?
>
> Where is the problem?
> Do I have to perform anything else?
>
> Thank you so much for your help.
>
> BG
> Erika
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prof Brian Ripley" 
> <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> To: "Erika Melissari" <erika.melissari at bioclinica.unipi.it>
> Cc: <R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 17:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] install SPIA package on Windows
>
>
>> Both the 'Writing R Extensions' and 'R Installation and Administration'
>> manuals point you at the win-builder service.  The latter also tells you
>> how to set Windows up to build source packages.
>> 
>> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Erika Melissari wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> I would like to install a new R package named SPIA, but I have only the 
>>> source version ( tar.gz  version) and I work with windows.
>>> Can anyone support to me any information to perform the installation of 
>>> this package?
>>> Any suggestion will be appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Thank you
>>> 
>>> Erika
>>> 
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>> Yes, that means you too.
>> 
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>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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