[rkward-devel] rk.Teaching package installation...

[Aaron Batty]

Awesome, Meik; thank you! I figured there. Was a way, but after fiddling
with it for 30 minutes or so, I decided to ask for help.

I'll take a look and see what state the translations are in...

On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, meik michalke <
Meik.Michalke at uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:

> hi aaron,
>
> Am Mittwoch, 13. August 2014, 18:37:21 schrieb Aaron Batty:
> > Awhile back, Alfredo Sánchez Alberca told us all about an
> amazing-sounding
> > set of plugins for RKWard in his package rk.Teaching and he wanted to
> have
> > them added to the main repository. The response was, "These ought to be
> in
> > RKWard by default!"
> >
> > And then nothing.
>
> actually, the response was a bit more like "we wait for the updated english
> version and put it in the repo then" ;-)
>
> judging from the github repo, there seems to be no change in the package
> status since then:
>  https://github.com/asalber/rkTeaching
>
> @alfredo: how should we proceed? add the outdated package -- is it fit for
> duty?
>
> > I am trying to install the package now, but can't seem to get it in, as
> it
> > has to be downloaded from his site, and none of the three versions of
> > instructions for installation seem to work on OSX
>
> i think the problem could be that R for OS X expects binary packages by
> default, but what you can download from the page is the package sources.
> instead of
>
>  install.packages("rk.Teaching", repos=NULL, dep=True)
>
> try
>
>  install.packages("/path/to/rk.Teaching.tar.gz", repos=NULL, dep=True,
>    type="source")
>
> i had to restart RKWard to have it recognize the new pluginmaps, and RKWard
> complained that one particular XML file (sort.xml) was missing. apart from
> that, it seems to run here.
>
> btw, once you installed the package in one machine, you can actually zip up
> the folder rk.Teaching in your R library as a .tgz file, and there you have
> your binary package ;-) this will work a) for any package that only
> includes
> pure R code (no FORTRAN, C, etc.), and b) also for windows, if you make it
> a
> .zip file.
>
>
> viele grüße :: m.eik
>
> --
>   dipl. psych. meik michalke
>   institut f"ur experimentelle psychologie
>   abt. f"ur diagnostik und differentielle psychologie
>   heinrich-heine-universit"at d-40204 d"usseldorf
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