[ESS] ESSR package for windows

[Vitalie Spinu]

Thanks Rainer. Fixed in all repos now.

  Vitalie 

 >>> Rainer M Krug on Fri, 4 Oct 2013 09:37:33 +0200 wrote:

 > I get a similar error. I am on OS X, R installed "the official way", and
 > I get the following when starting R from git in emacs:

 > ,----
 > | R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) -- "Good Sport"
 > | Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
 > | Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
 > | 
 > | R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
 > | You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
 > | Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
 > | 
 > |   Natural language support but running in an English locale
 > | 
 > | R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
 > | Type 'contributors()' for more information and
 > | 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
 > | 
 > | Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
 > | 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
 > | Type 'q()' to quit R.
 > | 
 > | > > install.packages('/Users/rainerkrug/.emacs.d/ess-git/etc/ESSR_1.0.tar.gz')
 > | Installing package into '/Users/rainerkrug/Library/R/3.0/library'
 > | (as 'lib' is unspecified)
 > | --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
 > | Warning message:
 > | package '/Users/rainerkrug/.emacs.d/ess-git/etc/ESSR_1.0.tar.gz' is not available (for R version 3.0.1) 
 > | > library(ESSR)
 > | Error in library(ESSR) : there is no package called 'ESSR'
 > | > options(STERM='iESS', str.dendrogram.last="'", editor='emacsclient', show.error.locations=TRUE)
 > | > 
 > `----

 > The problem is the argument type="source" which is missing:

 > ,----
 > | > install.packages('/Users/rainerkrug/.emacs.d/ess-git/etc/ESSR_1.0.tar.gz')
 > | Installing package into '/Users/rainerkrug/Library/R/3.0/library'
 > | (as 'lib' is unspecified)
 > | Warning message:
 > | package '/Users/rainerkrug/.emacs.d/ess-git/etc/ESSR_1.0.tar.gz' is not available (for R version 3.0.1) 
 > | > install.packages('/Users/rainerkrug/.emacs.d/ess-git/etc/ESSR_1.0.tar.gz', repos=NULL)
 > | Installing package into '/Users/rainerkrug/Library/R/3.0/library'
 > | (as 'lib' is unspecified)
 > | Error: file '/Users/rainerkrug/.emacs.d/ess-git/etc/ESSR_1.0.tar.gz' is not an OS X binary package
 > | > install.packages('/Users/rainerkrug/.emacs.d/ess-git/etc/ESSR_1.0.tar.gz', repos=NULL, type="source")
 > | Installing package into '/Users/rainerkrug/Library/R/3.0/library'
 > | (as 'lib' is unspecified)
 > | * installing *source* package 'ESSR' ...
 > | ** R
 > | ** preparing package for lazy loading
 > | ** help
 > | *** installing help indices
 > | ** building package indices
 > | ** testing if installed package can be loaded
 > | * DONE (ESSR)
 > | > 
 > `----

 > This should also solve the issue under Windows.
 > Cheers,

 > Rainer

 > Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> writes:

 >> Thank you very much for reporting this.
 >> 
 >> I don't think R expects .zip. This is what docs says:
 >> 
 >> If ‘repos = NULL’, a character vector of file paths of
 >> ‘.tar.gz’ files.  These can be source archives or binary
 >> package archive files (as created by ‘R CMD build --binary’).
 >> On a CRAN build of R for OS X these can be ‘.tgz’ files
 >> containing binary package archives.  Tilde-expansion will be
 >> done on the file paths.
 >> 
 >> Would you please try 
 >> 
 >> install.packages('c:/drop/emacs/ess/etc/ESSR_1.0.tar.gz', repos=NULL)
 >> 
 >> 
 >> Thanks, 
 >> Vitalie
 >> 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> >>> Kevin Wright on Thu, 3 Oct 2013 12:18:28 -0500 wrote:
 >> 
 >> > When I start R inside emacs, I see this:
 >> > install.packages('c:/drop/emacs/ess/etc/ESSR_1.0.tar.gz')
 >> > Installing package into 'c:/kw/R/win-library/3.0'
 >> > (as 'lib' is unspecified)
 >> > Warning message:
 >> > package 'c:/drop/emacs/ess/etc/ESSR_1.0.tar.gz' is not available (for R
 >> > version 3.0.1)
 R> library(ESSR)
 >> > Error in library(ESSR) : there is no package called 'ESSR'
 R> options(STERM='iESS', str.dendrogram.last="'", editor='emacsclient.exe',
 >> > show.error.locations=TRUE)
 >> 
 >> > I'm on a windows machine, and R expects to find a "zip" binary package
 >> > instead of a "tar.gz" source package.
 >> 
 >> > I can build this manually if needed...should I?  Or should the zip file be
 >> > bundled with ess?  Or should R just source the files in the ESSR/r/ folder?
 >> 
 >> > Kevin
 >> 
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