[ESS] I can not use install.packages

[James W. MacDonald]

Adding the CRAN repository to .Rprofile works great unless you do 
something that overwrites the options list (like using setRepositories() 
to get e.g., BioC or OmegaHat stuff).

Manually loading the tcltk package first will for whatever reason fix 
the problem for that session, even though on Windows (unlike Linux) 
Tcl/Tk isn't used to create the selection window.

Best,

Jim



Marc Schwartz wrote:
> on 08/06/2008 09:54 PM Stephen Eglen wrote:
>> Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at pdf.com> wrote:
>>
>>>      What operating system do you use?
>>>      I use Windows, and I have had the same problem for years.
>>> However, I don't understand Emacs / Xemacs well enough to even
>>> consider fixing it,  Moreover, I suspect that virtually all of the ESS
>>> Gurus avoid Windows like the Black Death and are therefore largely
>>> ignorant of the problem. 
>>
>> that's a good way of describing it!
>>
>> In my .Rprofile, I have:
>>
>> options(repos=c(CRAN="http://cran.uk.r-project.org/"),
>>         papersize="a4")
>>
>> and I think if you do something similar, you'll not got asked for the
>> repos location.  I'm not sure where .Rprofile is put on Windows; the
>> closest I could see in the rw faq is that there should be a file
>> R_HOME\etc\Rprofile.site which you can presumbly edit to store the
>> repos.
>>
>> Stephen
> 
> My recollection, when this has come up previously, is that there is a 
> Windows specific issue with tcl/tk 'windows' when running under 
> [X]Emacs/ESS, resulting in the lack of function.
> 
> It does however, work on Linux. F9 in my case.
> 
> Thus, Stephen's recommendation is a good one, in that defining the repo 
> in your .Rprofile removes the need to define a per session repo via the 
> tcl/tk windows interaction.
> 
> It has been long enough now since I last ran Windows, but it seems to me 
> that the local user-specific copy of .Rprofile was someplace in the 
> user's "My Documents" folder tree. If you are not sharing this 
> particular computer, it may be best to make your changes there, rather 
> than in the site-wide file, which would be lost when upgrading to new 
> versions of R.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
> 
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