I am using the regular R console on a MAC Air with Monterrey as the OS and I'm still having issues loading packages. It is iffy, as to whether a package is loaded and ready to use. Sometimes packages will load and sometimes not. Also, it would not call up data sets that as a default are included in the R packages I'm trying to use. the weird thing is it would recognize the example dataset that is included because when I first tied to call them up, it would let me autocomplete the name. Then it stopped doing that. Then it started telling me that the file doesn't exist. I know I haven't used R in a while but this just seems buggy! any help would be appreciated.
The R version that I have installed is : R version 4.2.0 (2022-04-22) -- "Vigorous Calisthenics" and it was installed just last week.
It seems R was not properly installed on your machine.
Several persons reported that using the package manager in RStudio actually did the trick of updating the packages.
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I recently installed R 4.0, after previously using relying R 3.6.3. To manage R repositories, I use Rstudio (currently 1.2.5042 on a Windows 10 machine). After upgrading to R 4.0, I opened a project from a few months ago, and realized that Rstudio is now, by default, using the newer version of R (and it's library folder). When running renv::restore(), renv attempts to re-install all libraries in the .lock file for the newer version of R, and I don't see any way to specify that I want to keep using R 3.6.3 and it's associated library.
Coming from a python background, I had assumed that renv would create a virtual environment that isolates both the interpreter and the libraries that the project uses (similar to how anaconda environments are created). However, after looking through the documentation and doing a few searches, I have found no reference to isolating a particular version of R. I have, however, found that Rstudio defaults to using the latest version of R, which is not necessarily the behaviour that I want.
I have tried using anaconda to manage an R environment. However, Anaconda relies on its own smaller repository of R packages, and many of the libraries I need are from researchers that house their code on GitHub.
Is there a way to create an R environment in which I can isolate both the R libraries and the version of R itself? Or, perhaps there is something I am missing about how environments with R/Rstudio are intended to be used?
You are correct that renv only manages the installed R packages, and not the R interpreter itself.
Depending on how you're using RStudio, you can still "fake" this by setting the RSTUDIO_WHICH_R environment variable. For example:
export RSTUDIO_WHICH_R=/path/to/R
rstudio
would tell RStudio to "bind" to the version of R specified by the RSTUDIO_WHICH_R environment variable.
For what it's worth, the ability to bind projects to a specific version of R is a feature of the professional editions of RStudio; however, it's not available in the open-source version. See here for more details.
Currently running R version 3.6.2 and RStudio version 1.2.5033 (both the latest versions as of today).
I have installed the R/Cape package from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=cape, although when I try to load the package into R studio using:
library(cape)
I get the following from the RStudio console. RStudio then stops responding. I have tried this in just R as well and R also stops responding.
Can anybody please tell me if they've had any similar experiences and how they resolved them? Or if you've managed to install the 'cape' package how you did so?
The 'cape' library depends on other packages like 'htmltools' and many others. This is not an error message, just a warning. It means that some of the functions from 'tools:rstudio' will be replaced by other functions with the same name. See this answer which already addresses this.
As for the non-responsive behaviour, it is probably unrelated to the warnings discussed above. Try reinstalling R and updating all your packages. In Rstudio, you can update all your packages by clicking Tools > Update Packages > Select All > Install Updates.
How do I install an old version of R on a window 10 64 PC.
I am currently running R 3.2.3 with RStudio without any problems. However a package I want to use (GSIF) only works on R2.15. I have found that it is possible to easily get RStudio to work with different R versions and I have found and downloaded the old version of R I want ( R-2.15.1-w.tar.gz) from the CRAN archives. My problems is cannot work out how to install the R-2.15.1-w.tar.gz package on a windows machine or in fact even if it is the right package for windows. All the instruction I can find seem to relate to Linux.
Any guidance greatly appreciated.
You can hold down the Control key during the launch of RStudio you can cause the R version selection dialog to display at startup.
https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200486138-Using-Different-Versions-of-R
I feel pretty comfortable working with R, and I want to get into Python through Anaconda.
Upon trying the Jupyter Notebook and finding it has compatibility with R, I really want to use it.
I'm having problem installing the R packages that don't come in R-essentials; and mainly because I noticed it uses a different R installation than the one I had before. Not only is this a different R installation, but it also uses a previous version of R. In my local installation I have updated to 3.2.3 but in the Anaconda environment for Jupyter I got 3.1.
I also found a post to change the .libPaths variable to include the packages that I had already installed. Still, I see this as a potential problem because of the different R versions.
I wanted to know if I can update the R version that's used in Anaconda, or if I can point to the one that's installed locally.
Thank you.
You can install IRkernel in the normal R installation and then register the kernel: simply follow the instructions at http://irkernel.github.io/installation/
I'm trying to use R through SPSS syntax (I'm using SPSS 18 on windows 7) which requires installing a special plugin: PASWStatistics_RPlugIn_1802_win32.exe. Also I had to install an older version of R(2.8.1 - required by my older version of SPSS - i like it better than the new ones). The plugin now works, R (both versions) works, but Rstudio stopped working and won't start even after uninstalling and re-installing.
Does anyone have any similar experience and could suggest a solution?
The following link specifies how you can configure Rstudio to work with a specific R version you have installed:
http://www.rstudio.com/ide/docs/advanced/versions_of_r
Just install R 2.8 and 2.14 and let spss use one, and Rstudio another.
You are taking a risk by using old versions of spss and R (bugs that have been fixed in newer versions, decreased performance, possible incompatibility with other software e.g. R packages, missing functionality).
You can have multiple versions of R installed at the same time - I have five. The current version of Statistics, 21, goes with R2.14. I don't know how Rstudio determines which version to use. You might need to reset the R environment variables or your path settings.