similar to: install.packages saying the car package is not in the repositories

Dear helpful person, I have been trying to download package car from the CRAN website using the install.packages command from within R. I have successfully used this command to install other packages but can't make it work for car. When I try I get the following messages: trying URL `http://cran.uk.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' Content type `text/plain' length 5677

Dear all I can not understand how to install the package lpsolve_1.1.9.zip I have read the FAQ and the help pages carefully, but it still not clear for me. I have tried the following (and obtained the respective error messages): >install.packages("c:/ProgramFiles/R/rw2011/library/lpSolve_1.1.9",destdir=" c:/ProgramFiles/R/rw2011/library/lpSolve") Mensagem de aviso:

Yesterday, I installed R2.2.0 for Windows [Version 2.2.0 (2005-10-06 r35749)]. Unfortunately, 'install.packages("Matrix")' produced the following message: Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, : no package 'Matrix' at the repositories I installed lme4, maps, mapproj, CircStats, scatterplot3d, gregmisc, Hmisc without

Dear all, I've noticed the following problem for the past several days: ---------------- snip ---------------- > update.packages(ask=FALSE) . . . trying URL 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/src/contrib/zoo_1.7-11.zip' Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : cannot open URL 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/src/contrib/zoo_1.7-11.zip'

Dear r-helpers, I can't get lsa to run because: > library(lsa) Loading required package: Rstem Error in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc) : 'Rstem' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0? In addition: Warning message: cannot create HTML package index in: make.packages.html() > install.packages('Rstem') Warning in

Wish to install a local source package on Un*x platform from within R. Same thing as I can accomplish from cmdline as $ export R_LIBS=~/R/library $ cd /path/to/pkg $ R CMD INSTALL -l $R_LIBS <pkgname> So, how do you go about this anyway? And isn't this a bug in 'install.packages'? ------- $ R R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 1.9.0

Hello, when trying to write an R-file, which automatically installs and updates a given list of packages, I had two problems with install.packages() 1) install.packages("<package>") will install <package>, no matter if <package> has already been installed. 2) the readline() at the end of install.packages, which asks the user, if the downloaded files should be

Hi, I am trying to install the misc3d package on a Windows (XP) installation of R 2.0.1 using install.packages("misc3d") but with no success. I have used this approach with other packages OK, but for misc3d I get the following output... trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/PACKAGES' Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 27996 bytes

I try to type this in my R-winEdt. but I got these. Do you know? Aimin > install.packages('http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/plotrix_2.1-6.zip') Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, : no package 'http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/plotrix_2.1-6.zip' at the

Full_Name: Alexandra R Mendes de Almeida Version: 2.4.1 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (201.51.225.154) R-Masters The packahe SGAx is not on the repository. See the message returned by R when i tried to install it: > install.packages("SAGx") --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done Warning in download.packages(unique(pkgs),

I am a pretty new R user, I am running the latest linux version on xandros, updated with some extra debian packages, and I also run the latest windows version, but prefer linux. I am having trouble downloading "bayesm", it won't do it all from any of the sites on the web, I resorted to this one, http://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/r-cran-bayesm. and got slightly further, but I

I have escaped Splus for Windows (mostly) and have started using R (v 2.3.1 on i686 redhat). Installing packages has been routine except for "sp" (classes and methods for spatial data). I get the following error message > install.packages("sp") Warning in download.packages(unique(pkgs),destdir=tmpd,available=available,: no package 'sp' at the

Thanks a lot for your help! Obviously I've tried to load it before by using the install.packages function but it didn't work. This is what I got > install.packages("mvtnorm") trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.7/PACKAGES' Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 12485 bytes opened URL downloaded 12Kb Warning message: No package

Trying to install the Matrix package with install.packages fails for me on Linux, it is trying to fetch the wrong version 0.99-4, downloading the tgz which is 0.99-6 and using R CMD INSTALL works fine The output from the failed install was > install.packages(c("Matrix")) trying URL 'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/src/contrib/Matrix_0.99-4.tar.gz' Error in

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Henrik Bengtsson" <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu> > To: "John Fox" <jfox at mcmaster.ca> > Cc: "R-devel" <r-devel at r-project.org> > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:15:36 AM > Subject: Re: [Rd] problem with update.packages() in R-Devel (3.2.0) on Windows > > It works again using: > > % R

Hello, I see the following issue in R-devel since 'both' has become the default pkgType for binary platforms. update.packages() fails when you set options(repos). Looks like it is trying to download a tgz file from the src/contrib section of a repository (on a mac). To reproduce this you need to have an older version of AnnotationDbi installed, which I accomplished by faking it,

Hi, using scatterplot in 'car' package. There are 4 plots to be pictured together (ignore data used): library(car) par(mfrow=c(3,1)) ts.plot(rnorm(100)) ts.plot(rnorm(100)) scatterplot(rnorm(100),rnorm(100),boxplot="",smooth=T) # scatter with non-parametric fit problem is that the last one comes 'always' separate. Is there any way to solve it?? of course can use

O/S: Linux R version : 2.2.1 The R server doesn't have http internet access. And the sys admins will not install the R libraries that I requested. So I have downloaded the packages that I want to intall and have moved them into my home directory on the server. These are a series of *.tar.gz files. I want to install the R libraries in my home directory, but I can't get it to work.

Hello All, I tried to install RMySQL package, but the error messages says there is no such package, even though I did see RMySQL is there in the contributed package list in all mirror sites of CRAN I tried. Not sure what is the problem. > mysql.home <- '/usr/local/mysql' >

Hi there, I am a bioinformatician working in DFCI. I am new to R. Yesterday I installed the R-1.7.1 to my Linux (since I am not able to find R-1.8 on the webpage). But I have some package installation problems ... 1. install.packages2() function isn't available. If I type at R prompt: >install.packages2("Biobase") Error: couldn't find function