Hi Garrett

 

I don't know about working from R but here is how I circumvented communication problems between R and Amelia with the GUI windows interface.

 

Open the bat file and remove the last four lines that say DEL on them with file names after the DEL words. Then save the bat file.

 

These four lines are designed to "clean up" files created in the batch file.

 

What hapens on fast machines is that the last line before these four lines is told to execute a program while finding the created files. But before that program can find the created files, the next four lines delete them. 

 

I had installed amelia on six computers and 3 of the fastest ones would not run correctly. When I did the above, everything worked fine.

 

Jim Jaccard 

 

On 10/9/06, Garrett Glasgow <glasgow@polsci.ucsb.edu> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I've got a (hopefully) quick question about installing Amelia II.  The setup is
kind of long, however ...

I tried to follow the directions on your website for installation
of Amelia II, but it didn't work.  Clicking the amelia.bat file led
to a DOS window flashing open and then closing.  I checked for the
usual problems that would lead to this with the old version of
Amelia --- I didn't use any strange folder names or anything, I just
accepted the defaults.  I've got the latest version of R (2.4.0) and Amelia I is
not installed on this computer.

In looking at the results of my failed attempt at installation, I
noticed that .installinfo reads:

Ver
C:/DOCUME~1/Garrett/LOCALS~1/Temp/ijtmp_E75D9488-A6DE-4D98-A9F8-1065E55153D1/Amelia_1.1-8.zip
1.0.0.0
Ver {C:/Program Files/AmeliaView/amelia.ini} 1.0.0.0
Ver {C:/Program Files/AmeliaView/aminstall.r} 1.0.0.0
Ver {C:/Program Files/AmeliaView/aminstall.bat} 1.0.0.0
Ver {C:/Program Files/AmeliaView/amelia.ico} 1.0.0.0
Ver {C:/Program Files/AmeliaView/amelia.bat} 1.0.0.0

while aminstall.r.Rout reads:
install.packages("C:/DOCUME~1/Garrett/LOCALS~1/Temp/ijtmp_E75D9488-A6DE-4D98-A9F8-1065E55153D1/Amelia_1.1- 9.zip",repos=NULL)
Error in zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) :
zipfile
'C:/DOCUME~1/Garrett/LOCALS~1/Temp/ijtmp_E75D9488-A6DE-4D98-A9F8-1065E55153D1/Amelia_1.1-9.zip'
not found
Execution halted

There seems to be a mismatch between versions 1.1-8 and 1.1-9 in
this output --- could this explain why my installation failed?

I then tried to install Amelia II using R.  Here's how that went:

install.packages("Amelia",repos=" http://gking.harvard.edu")
Warning: unable to access index for repository
http://gking.harvard.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4
Warning in download.packages (pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available,  :
        no package 'Amelia' at the repositories

I think since R 2.4 came out a few days ago this failed (the latest
directory you have is 2.3).  So I finally went to your website and
downloaded Amelia_1.1-9.zip directly to my computer and installed using R that
way.  That seemed to work, at least in getting the Amelia GUI to pop
up, but now I can't seem to read in any data.  When I try I get this
in the R Console:

library(Amelia)
AmeliaView()
Loading required package: tcltk
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
Loading required package: foreign
Error in load.data(, ) : unused argument(s) ()
<Tcl>


I've tried different formats of data (Stata and tab delimited) and I
get the same error.

Any guidance you have on this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Garrett

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