Instructions for installing R packages when firewalls prevent the usual method from working

Setting up R2WinBUGS and BRugs (if usual method doesn't work)

• Go to the R webpage and follow the instructions to download contributed packages. (Click on CRAN, then pick a mirror site, then click for the precompiled Windows version, then click on "contrib", then go to the highest-numbered subdirectory (i.e., the newest version of R).
• Download the zip files of arm, lme4, Matrix, R2WinBUGS, BRugs, car, and foreign. Save them in a convenient place such as your desktop.
• Go into R, click on Packages (at the top of the R console), then click on "Install package(s) from local zip files", then find the zip file with arm from wherever you just saved it.
• Do the same thing to install each of the other packages you want to install.

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