R help - Mar 2012 - Which packages are installed with the default R installation?

Hello,

I am a new R user, I have one R version in my Macbook and one in a ubuntu
desktop.
I was installing some packages from a secure private source to the R in
ubuntu and it replaced some of the existing packages. While the version in
my macbook works all ok, in the Ubuntu version of R, I am missing some basic
functionalities like:
find.package()
and I can't install new packages which are throwing dependency errors.
> install.packages("ggplot2")
..
Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
  package ?ggplot2? is not available

Can you help me with what base packages I may be missing?
Thanks in advance,
D. Isler


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On Mar 4, 2012, at 4:22 PM, maya wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a new R user, I have one R version in my Macbook and one in a  
> ubuntu
> desktop.
> I was installing some packages from a secure private source to the R  
> in
> ubuntu and it replaced some of the existing packages. While the  
> version in
> my macbook works all ok, in the Ubuntu version of R, I am missing  
> some basic
> functionalities like:
> find.package()
> and I can't install new packages which are throwing dependency errors.
>
>> install.packages("ggplot2")
> ..
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>  package ?ggplot2? is not available
>
> Can you help me with what base packages I may be missing?
So far I see no evidence that any base packages are "missing".  
"ggplot2" is certainly not a base package.

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

Hi D. Isler,

It is not a very good sign if you are indeed missing the
find.package() function, this is in the base package, and if functions
from base are missing, your entire version of R is likely corrupt.

If you just do not have some packages you want, and are having
dependency issues, make sure you have a connection to an up-to-date
CRAN mirror, R has write permissions to a library, and then try:

install.packages("package of interest", dependencies = TRUE)

Also, you should read the posting guide (see the footer of this
message as well as every other message ever on R-help) and report the
output of sessionInfo() to us.

Best regards,

Josh

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 1:22 PM, maya <duyguisler at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a new R user, I have one R version in my Macbook and one in a ubuntu
> desktop.
> I was installing some packages from a secure private source to the R in
> ubuntu and it replaced some of the existing packages. While the version in
> my macbook works all ok, in the Ubuntu version of R, I am missing some
basic
> functionalities like:
> find.package()
> and I can't install new packages which are throwing dependency errors.
>
>> install.packages("ggplot2")
> ..
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
> ?package ?ggplot2? is not available
>
> Can you help me with what base packages I may be missing?
> Thanks in advance,
> D. Isler
>
>
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