“installation of package 'FILE_PATH' had non-zero exit status” in R

Question

By installing the package in R using the following command:

install.packages(\'FILE_PATH\', repos=NULL, type = \"source\")

I got the follow

Answer 1

I was having a similar problem trying to install a package called AED. I tried using the install.packages() command:

install.packages('FILE_PATH', repos=NULL, type = "source")

but kept getting the following warning message:

Warning message:
In install.packages("/Users/blahblah/R-2.14.0/AED",  :
installation of package ‘/Users/blahblah/R-2.14.0/AED’ had
non-zero exit status

It turned out the folder 'AED' had another folder inside of it that hadn't been uncompressed. I just uncompressed it and tried installing the package again and it worked.