[amelia] issues installing Amelia II

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 - Amelia mailing list served by Harvard-MIT Data Center [Un]Subscribe/View Archive: http://lists.gking.harvard.edu/?info=amelia