[R] Installing an Archived Package

Michael Dewey
2018-05-16T16:29:53Z

Dear Evguenia

What happens if you manually download the version you want and run
install.packages() on that file? Your first attempt is on a .tar file
not on the tar.gz file in the archive, not sure if that makes a difference.

Michael

On 16/05/2018 16:24, Evguenia Ignatova wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having difficulty installing the most recent compatible version of the
?polycor" package (0.7-8), for R 3.2.1 on my Mac. Here is the package
source page: https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/
<https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/>.
>
> This version of R is necessary for the R Essentials for the IBM Statistical
Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) extension. I found this thread on the problem
(http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-polycor-package-td4726101.html
<http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-polycor-package-td4726101.html>)
but it does not offer much help as my SPSS version will not recognize the most
recent versions of R.
>
> The polycor package is not available in the repository of R 3.2.1. Here is
the code I tried to install the package from the archive and the errors I
received:
>
>> install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar", repos=NULL,
type="source")
> Warning: invalid package ?/polycor_0.7-8.tar?
> Error: ERROR: no packages specified
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("/polycor_0.7-8.tar", repos = NULL, type =
"source") :
>    installation of package ?/polycor_0.7-8.tar? had non-zero exit status
>>
install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/polycor/polycor_0.7-8.tar.gz",
repos=NULL, type="source")
> Error in download.file(p, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>    unsupported URL scheme
>
> Any ideas for other alternatives would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
for your time!
>
> Best,
> Evguenia
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Michael