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Before I used Aspell, I had installed aspell and english dictionary in terminal (OS X 10.9) . When I tried > aspell("duncan") as exemplified by http://www.omegahat.org/Aspell/aspell.html, console showed:

Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(con, "r") : cannot open file 'duncan': No such file or directory

I thought it might because aspell{utils} might be different from aspell of Aspell package. Then I tried to install Aspell by install.packages("Aspell", repos = "http://www.omegahat.org/R") based on http://www.omegahat.org/Aspell/ but R showed:

Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.omegahat.org/R/bin/macosx/contrib/3.1

   package ‘Aspell’ is available as a source package but not as a binary

Warning message:
package ‘Aspell’ is not available (for R version 3.1.1)

In addition, I am totally confused by R CMD INSTALL Aspell_0.1-0.tar.gz(http://www.omegahat.org/Aspell/). Where should I type and run it?

How can I use Aspell in R normally? Or can your provide me a good manual? Thanks in advance.

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  • Look at this question and answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19093319/aspell-error-no-suitable-spell-checker-program-found – lawyeR Jul 23 '14 at 10:26
  • @lawyeR Yes, I've read it before. But I think I am asking a different question. The page you mentioned is because the user did not install "aspell" in operation system. Mine is about how to install aspell in R. And I've tried `> files <- Sys.glob("*.Rd") > files character(0)` mentioned in *http://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/utils/functions/aspell* but nothing works. – user3552733 Jul 23 '14 at 11:07
  • Does `install.packages("Aspell", repos = "http://www.omegahat.org/R", type="source")` work? – Karsten W. Jul 23 '14 at 11:48
  • @KarstenW. Yes! It works well! Thank you so much! One more thing, when I run it on windows on school's PC it shows `Warning messages: 1: running command '"C:/Users/c1268298/Desktop/Apps/R/R-3.1.1/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\c1268298\Desktop\Apps\R\R-3.1.1\library" C:\Users\c1268298\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpGAFX2h/downloaded_packages/Aspell_0.2-0.tar.gz' had status 1 `. – user3552733 Jul 23 '14 at 13:27
  • I believe the package contains a C library. Hence you need [Rtools](http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/) to compile it on windows. – Karsten W. Jul 23 '14 at 14:01
  • @KarstenW. Thank you so much and you do help me a lot! What should I read or what should I do if I want to be someone like you. – user3552733 Jul 23 '14 at 14:22
  • You sure don't want be like me. But thanks for the flattering anyhow. You're welcome! – Karsten W. Jul 23 '14 at 15:23

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