R help - Apr 2015 - Repeated failures to install "caret" package (of Max Kuhn)

For an edx course, MIT's "The Analtics Edge", I need to install
the
"caret" package that was originated and is maintained by Dr. Max Kuhn
of
Pfizer. So far, every effort I've made to try to 
install.packages("caret") has failed.  (I'm using R v. 3.1.3 and
RStudio
v. 0.98.1103 in LinuxMint 17.1)

Here are some of the things I've tried unsuccessfully:
install.packages("caret",
repos=c("http://rstudio.org/_packages",
"http://cran.rstudio.com"))
install.packages("caret", dependencies=TRUE)
install.packages("caret",
repos=c("http://rstudio.org/_packages",
"http://cran.rstudio.com"), dependencies=TRUE)
install.packages("caret", dependencies = c("Depends",
"Suggests"))
install.packages("caret", repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/")

I've changed my CRAN mirror from UCLA to Revolution Analytics in Dallas, 
and tried the above installs again, unsuccessfully.

I've succeeded in individually installing a number of packages on which 
"caret" appears to be dependent.  Specifically, I've been able to 
install  "nloptr", "minqa", "Rcpp",
"reshape2", "stringr", and
"scales".  But I've had no success with trying to do individual
installs
of "BradleyTerry2", "car", "lme4",
"quantreg", and "RcppEigen".

Any suggestions will be very gratefully received (and tried out quickly).

Thanks in advance.

Ron Wyllys

Hi Ron,

Without knowing more it's really hard to help. What error messages are
you getting?
"failed" and "no success" are utterly uninformative - there
are many
things that could be wrong.

The first thing, though, is always to check whether you have the
necessary dependencies installed, eg devel libraries.

Sarah

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Ronald Wyllys <wyllys at
ischool.utexas.edu> wrote:
> For an edx course, MIT's "The Analtics Edge", I need to
install the "caret"
> package that was originated and is maintained by Dr. Max Kuhn of Pfizer. So
> far, every effort I've made to try to
install.packages("caret") has failed.
> (I'm using R v. 3.1.3 and RStudio v. 0.98.1103 in LinuxMint 17.1)
>
> Here are some of the things I've tried unsuccessfully:
> install.packages("caret",
repos=c("http://rstudio.org/_packages",
> "http://cran.rstudio.com"))
> install.packages("caret", dependencies=TRUE)
> install.packages("caret",
repos=c("http://rstudio.org/_packages",
> "http://cran.rstudio.com"), dependencies=TRUE)
> install.packages("caret", dependencies = c("Depends",
"Suggests"))
> install.packages("caret",
repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/")
>
> I've changed my CRAN mirror from UCLA to Revolution Analytics in
Dallas, and
> tried the above installs again, unsuccessfully.
>
> I've succeeded in individually installing a number of packages on which
> "caret" appears to be dependent.  Specifically, I've been
able to install
> "nloptr", "minqa", "Rcpp",
"reshape2", "stringr", and "scales".  But I've
> had no success with trying to do individual installs of
"BradleyTerry2",
> "car", "lme4", "quantreg", and
"RcppEigen".
>
> Any suggestions will be very gratefully received (and tried out quickly).
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Ron Wyllys
>
-- 
Sarah Goslee
http://www.functionaldiversity.org

What is the error message?

Best,
Uwe Ligges

On 03.04.2015 23:07, Ronald Wyllys wrote:
> For an edx course, MIT's "The Analtics Edge", I need to
install the
> "caret" package that was originated and is maintained by Dr. Max
Kuhn of
> Pfizer. So far, every effort I've made to try to
> install.packages("caret") has failed.  (I'm using R v. 3.1.3
and RStudio
> v. 0.98.1103 in LinuxMint 17.1)
>
> Here are some of the things I've tried unsuccessfully:
> install.packages("caret",
repos=c("http://rstudio.org/_packages",
> "http://cran.rstudio.com"))
> install.packages("caret", dependencies=TRUE)
> install.packages("caret",
repos=c("http://rstudio.org/_packages",
> "http://cran.rstudio.com"), dependencies=TRUE)
> install.packages("caret", dependencies = c("Depends",
"Suggests"))
> install.packages("caret",
repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/")
>
> I've changed my CRAN mirror from UCLA to Revolution Analytics in
Dallas,
> and tried the above installs again, unsuccessfully.
>
> I've succeeded in individually installing a number of packages on which
> "caret" appears to be dependent.  Specifically, I've been
able to
> install  "nloptr", "minqa", "Rcpp",
"reshape2", "stringr", and
> "scales".  But I've had no success with trying to do
individual installs
> of "BradleyTerry2", "car", "lme4",
"quantreg", and "RcppEigen".
>
> Any suggestions will be very gratefully received (and tried out quickly).
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Ron Wyllys
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

Try installing from somewhere outside of RStudio or reboot and retry in RStudio.
I find that if RStudio is open for a long time I occasionally get some weird
(buggy?) results but I cannot reproduce to send in an bug report.

Load R  and from the command line or Windows RGui try installing.  As a test I
just installed it successully with the command
"install.packages("caret")" executed in R (using gedit with
its
R-plug-in) and running Ubuntu 14.04


For future reference:
Reproducibility
https://github.com/hadley/devtools/wiki/Reproducibility
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example





John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wyllys at ischool.utexas.edu
> Sent: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 16:07:57 -0500
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Repeated failures to install "caret" package (of Max
Kuhn)
> 
> For an edx course, MIT's "The Analtics Edge", I need to
install the
> "caret" package that was originated and is maintained by Dr. Max
Kuhn of
> Pfizer. So far, every effort I've made to try to
> install.packages("caret") has failed.  (I'm using R v. 3.1.3
and RStudio
> v. 0.98.1103 in LinuxMint 17.1)
> 
> Here are some of the things I've tried unsuccessfully:
> install.packages("caret",
repos=c("http://rstudio.org/_packages",
> "http://cran.rstudio.com"))
> install.packages("caret", dependencies=TRUE)
> install.packages("caret",
repos=c("http://rstudio.org/_packages",
> "http://cran.rstudio.com"), dependencies=TRUE)
> install.packages("caret", dependencies = c("Depends",
"Suggests"))
> install.packages("caret",
repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/")
> 
> I've changed my CRAN mirror from UCLA to Revolution Analytics in
Dallas,
> and tried the above installs again, unsuccessfully.
> 
> I've succeeded in individually installing a number of packages on which
> "caret" appears to be dependent.  Specifically, I've been
able to
> install  "nloptr", "minqa", "Rcpp",
"reshape2", "stringr", and
> "scales".  But I've had no success with trying to do
individual installs
> of "BradleyTerry2", "car", "lme4",
"quantreg", and "RcppEigen".
> 
> Any suggestions will be very gratefully received (and tried out quickly).
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Ron Wyllys
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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I thought that this might be relevant:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28985759/cant-install-the-caret-package-in-r-in-my-linux-machine

but it seems that you installed nloptr.

I would also suggest doing the install in base R and trying a different
mirror. I would avoid installing via RStudio unless you have just started a
new R session.



On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 11:11 AM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
> Try installing from somewhere outside of RStudio or reboot and retry in
> RStudio.  I find that if RStudio is open for a long time I occasionally get
> some weird (buggy?) results but I cannot reproduce to send in an bug
report.
>
> Load R  and from the command line or Windows RGui try installing.  As a
> test I just installed it successully with the command
> "install.packages("caret")" executed in R (using gedit
with its
> R-plug-in) and running Ubuntu 14.04
>
>
> For future reference:
> Reproducibility
> https://github.com/hadley/devtools/wiki/Reproducibility
>
>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example
>
>
>
>
>
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wyllys at ischool.utexas.edu
> > Sent: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 16:07:57 -0500
> > To: r-help at r-project.org
> > Subject: [R] Repeated failures to install "caret" package
(of Max Kuhn)
> >
> > For an edx course, MIT's "The Analtics Edge", I need to
install the
> > "caret" package that was originated and is maintained by Dr.
Max Kuhn of
> > Pfizer. So far, every effort I've made to try to
> > install.packages("caret") has failed.  (I'm using R v.
3.1.3 and RStudio
> > v. 0.98.1103 in LinuxMint 17.1)
> >
> > Here are some of the things I've tried unsuccessfully:
> > install.packages("caret",
repos=c("http://rstudio.org/_packages",
> > "http://cran.rstudio.com"))
> > install.packages("caret", dependencies=TRUE)
> > install.packages("caret",
repos=c("http://rstudio.org/_packages",
> > "http://cran.rstudio.com"), dependencies=TRUE)
> > install.packages("caret", dependencies =
c("Depends", "Suggests"))
> > install.packages("caret",
repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/")
> >
> > I've changed my CRAN mirror from UCLA to Revolution Analytics in
Dallas,
> > and tried the above installs again, unsuccessfully.
> >
> > I've succeeded in individually installing a number of packages on
which
> > "caret" appears to be dependent.  Specifically, I've
been able to
> > install  "nloptr", "minqa", "Rcpp",
"reshape2", "stringr", and
> > "scales".  But I've had no success with trying to do
individual installs
> > of "BradleyTerry2", "car", "lme4",
"quantreg", and "RcppEigen".
> >
> > Any suggestions will be very gratefully received (and tried out
quickly).
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Ron Wyllys
> >
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> > PLEASE do read the posting guide
> > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on
> your desktop!
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
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