[R] Issue installing packages - Linux

[Shouro Dasgupta]

Hello Lara,

I recently installed a number of packages through compiling. After
downloading the package using 'wget', running R CMD INSTALL package.tar.gz
should work.

Sincerely,

Shouro

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Lars Bishop <lars52r at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Jim. I don't think that is the issue...if anyone else can shed some
> light here, that would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Lars.
>
> On Saturday, 30 April 2016, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Lars,
> > A mystery, but for the bodgy characters in your error message. Perhaps
> > there is a problem with R trying to read a different character set
> > from that used in the package.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Lars Bishop <lars52r at gmail.com
> > <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I can’t seem to be able to install packages on a redhat-linux-gnu. For
> > > instance, this is what happens when I try to install “bitops”. Any hint
> > on
> > > what might be the issue would be much appreciated.
> > >
> > >> sessionInfo()
> > > R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)
> > > Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> > > Running under: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> > >
> > >> Sys.setenv(https_proxy="https://labproxy.com:8080")
> > >> install.packages("bitops", lib="mypath ")
> > >
> > > Here I choose: 22: (HTTP mirrors) and then a mirror 16:Canada(ON)
> > >
> > > * installing *source* package âbitopsâ ...
> > > ** package âbitopsâ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> > > Error in readRDS(pfile) : error reading from connection
> > > ERROR: lazy loading failed for package âbitopsâ
> > >
> > > I’ve also tried from the shell (after downloading the package source)
> > >
> > > $  R CMD INSTALL bitops_1.0-6.tar.gz
> > > ERROR: cannot extract package from bitops_1.0-6.tar.gz
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Lars.
> > >
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