[Lign251] downloading binom

[Alex Del Giudice]

Maybe I'm the only person using windows but after typing

	install.packages("binom")

twice and then getting the following warning message

	Warning message:
	package ‘binom’ is not available

each time, (then using the GUI to try the same thing with the same 
result) I did a little investigation and discovered that the 'binom' 
package is not available for the windows version of R (you can see for 
yourself by visiting this url: 
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/binom.html )

I suppose I can do question 1(b) on campus but I did want to give the 
heads up to anyone else who may be using windows and get confused like I 
did.  Of course, if anyone more clever than me knows some other way to 
get binom on a windows machine running R, please do inform.

Alex

PS.  Does anyone find my use of the verb 'get' ungrammatical in the 
clause '(may) get confused like I did'?

Roger Levy wrote:
> Katie McGee wrote:
> 
> Hi Katie,
> 
> Klinton was right: you need to invoke
> 
>    library(binom)
> 
> after installing.  Sorry I left out that step.
> 
> 
> I think you may need to restart R for the documentation to be updated, 
> but once you do,
> 
>    library(binom)
>    ?binom.bayes
> 
> should give you an entry.
> 
> Roger
>