[R] Installing R-packages in Windows

[Erik Lukac]

Hi there,
I have the following problem and I hope somebody might help me.

First of all: I am using WinXP SP3 (english and/or german) with R in 
Version 2.10.0.

Now I am trying to install some packages but unfortunately I am getting 
a weird error. No matter which package I am trying to install - I nearly 
get the same error.

It looks like this:
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C:\Program Files\R\R-2.10.0\bin>R CMD INSTALL 
%SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\car_2.0-2.
zip
Warning in rawToChar(block[seq_len(ns)]) :
   truncating string with embedded nul: 
'PK\003\004\n\0\0\0\0\01áG=\0\0\0\0\0\0\0
\0\0\0\0\0\004\0\0\0car/PK\003\004\n\0\0\0\0\0-áG=\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\t\0\0
\0car/data/PK\003\004\024\0\002\0\b\0-áG=+2&ô[\t\003\0¥-\003\0\022'
Warning in rawToChar(block[101:107]) :
   truncating string with embedded nul: '\0\0\0car/'
Error in switch(rawToChar(z), ` ` = { : invalid octal digit
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I am trying to install with a batch-script that looks like this:
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SET rVersion=2.10.0
SET RPfad=%ProgramFiles%\R\R-%rVersion%\bin\
set RPacPfad=software\R_packages
         REM #############################################
         REM #### copyying to a folder without spaces
         REM #############################################
         cd %windir%
         cd ..
         mkdir rPAcsTemp
         cd %OrdnerDIR%\%RPACPFAD%
         copy *.zip %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp


cd %RPFAD%
R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\car*.zip
R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\dbi*.zip
R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\zipfR*.zip
R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\lme4*.zip
R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\coda*.zip
R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\languageR*.zip
R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\lattice_*.zip
R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\mvtnorm_*.zip
R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\multcomp_*.zip
R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\R.oo_*.zip
R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\R.methodsS3_*.zip
R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\R.matlab_*.zip
R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\RPostgreSQL_*.zip
R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\tree_*.zip
R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\xtable_*.zip
R CMD INSTALL %SystemDrive%\rPAcsTemp\emu*.tar.gz
cd %Back-to-Normal%
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Does anybody have an idea why I am recieving these error-messages? I 
thought about buggy files but after downloading the files (from 
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.10/ ) again I could 
reproduce the messages.

By the way: Is there a better method installing packages? I tried within R 
"install.packages" from online and local repository but that only works 
for the user I am installing with.

Thanks in advance for the replies

Erik