[Bio-Linux] Installing Plotrix in R

[Tim Booth]

Hi Danae,

On my machine, if I run "sudo R" and then:

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") 
biocLite("plotrix")

It installs fine.  There is no need to give the full URL to the tar.gz
as biocLite knows how to find it.  If this fails, could you please post
the errors you see when running this command?

Cheers,

TIM

On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 18:26 +0000, Danae Dodge wrote:
> Hello all, 
> I've been trying to install the library Plotrix from R for awhile
> unsuccessfully. I first updated R (I'm using BioLinux on a USB) to see
> if Plotrix was included and then I set the R LIB environmental
> variable so I could do this:
> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") 
> biocLite("pkgname") 
>  
> but with replacing it with the web address for Plotrix on the R
> website to download directly
> (this being the website that I went to:
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/plotrix/index.html
> So my command line is as follows:
> R CMD
> INSTALL /http://www.cran.r-project.org/web/packages/plotrix/plotrix_3.4-6.tar.gz
> 
> But I keep getting a Warning message: invalid package followed by the
> url and an error telling me no package specified. 
> So now I don't know how to download and install this package into R.
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Thanks,
> Danae
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dr Danae Dodge
> http://independent.academia.edu/DanaeDodge
> Skype: danaedodge

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