I'm trying to install ROCR package using command install.packages("ROCR"), but it gives the following error:
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘ROCR’ is not available (for R version 3.4.4)
And the package doesn't appear in my list of packages. I also tried installing it from the install option in the "Packages" window, but it didn't work either.
Do you know how I can fix this? I have also selected all repositories from setRepositories().
Thanks,
If you cannot update your R (maybe the risk of disruption in your older R packages and codes), you can follow these steps:
Download the tar.gz format from CRAN (https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ROCR_1.0-11.tar.gz).
Open the tar.gz file with your Archive Manager.
Delete MD5 file to prevent checksum Errors.
Open the DESCRIPTION file and change the line Depends: R (>= 3.6) to Depends: R (>= 3.1).
Save the modified DESCRIPTION and update your tar.gz file.
Open RSTUDIO and use the install button from Packages tab. Package Archive File (.tar.gz) in the Install From dropdown menu and find the modified tar.gz
from browse, and push install button. Or simply use install.packages("~/ROCR_1.0-11.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source") .
Although almost always it works fine, you should know without an MD5 checksum you risk yourself with security issues. However, we can almost always trust CRAN packages.
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I've downloaded the source code of an R package (You may use this R package by git-cloneing or downloading zipped version). I want to install the package via the Install and Restart button (4) in the Build tab (1). In configuration (2) I selected "Vignettes" (3).
Other configuration options I use:
Unfortunately, when I press Install and Restart, the package is installed but without its vignettes,i.e., no vignettes in the package's help page are displayed:
When I install the same package from CRAN, the vignettes are present:
Question: Is there a way to install a package with its vignettes by using this Install and Restart button. Maybe some configuration options are missing?
I use RStudio 1.3.1091, R 4.0.2 on Windows 10.
Update:
I'm aware of the solutions like:
devtools::install_github("r-lib/pkgdown", build_vignettes = TRUE)
Or in the Terminal window:
R CMD build .
R CMD INSTALL pkgdown_1.6.1.9000.tar.gz
But my question is about the functionality of the Install and Restart button (or similar tools in RStudio).
I installed this package in RStudio using devtools::install_github("r-lib/pkgdown", build_vignettes = TRUE). The vignettes are installing using this method.
vignette(package = "pkgdown")
Vignettes in package ‘pkgdown’:
linking Auto-linking (source, html)
pkgdown Introduction to pkgdown (source, html)
metadata Metadata (source, html)
search Search (source, html)
Furthermore, vignette("pkgdown") brings up the main vignette for the package. However, the help documentation landing page for the package appears to have been updated to no longer link to the vignettes.
Report this as a potential issue: https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdown/issues
If the vignettes are not installing when using RStudio's menu- and GUI-based approach, perhaps the issue is a bug in RStudio and not in the package.
I would like to install a package when using the latest R version in RStudio.
In particular the quantstrat package
Is that possible?
This is the R latest version I have 3.4.1
my error message:
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘quantstrat’ is not available (for R version 3.4.1)
Because quantstrat build-fail at R-Forge, you can't get the pre-build file(.tar.gz). You can get the code from github and build by yourself.
install.packages("devtools")
require(devtools)
install_github("braverock/blotter") # dependency
install_github("braverock/quantstrat")
Can you provide the installation code that produced that error message? Are you trying to install it from CRAN?
That doesn't appear possible.
A post from 2014 states it's not on CRAN
quantstrat is a R package ... still under heavy development and can’t be installed from CRAN yet. You can install it from source and the process is straightforward.
It's not on the current list of available CRAN packages
It's R-Forge page states the current version 'Failed to build'.
You could download the previous version (and its dependency) from R-Forge at
http://download.r-forge.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/quantstrat_0.9.1739.zip and
http://download.r-forge.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/blotter_0.9.1741.zip
(or get the Linux tar.gz files). Assuming they're saved in your personal Downloads folder, install it in R with
install.packages("~/Downloads/blotter_0.9.1741.zip", repos = NULL)
install.packages("~/Downloads/quantstrat_0.9.1739.zip", repos = NULL)
According to that first link, you'll need to install these prereqs first, if they're not already:
install.packages("FinancialInstrument")
install.packages("PerformanceAnalytics")
install.packages("foreach")
Edit: see the comment below from #brian-g-peterson for how the current deployment avenue uses GitHub. https://github.com/braverock/quantstrat
I am on Windows 7 and I am using R Studio 0.99.902 with R3.3.1. When I am trying to install a package I get the Warnings:
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib:
cannot open URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/src/contrib:
cannot open URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
It is the first time I see it and I cannot solve it. Can anyone help me ?
This issue is likely caused by the package being too old or too new for your R version. For example, if a package is released during R-3.4.1, it will not be available for R-3.3.1. Packages which are removed from CRAN before your R version are also not available. The package DESCRIPTION file shows if there is a hard restriction on which R versions the package will run.
Search for the package's CRAN page and see its status. You may still be able to install the package by downloading the package source (the tar.gz file) and in RStudio selecting Install from: Package Archive File in the Tools/Install Packages... menu (or using install.packages with repos = NULL). Beware that the package is not available from CRAN for a reason; you may need to make some changes to the package for it to work correctly.
Running options(download.file.method="libcurl") then installing packages did the trick for me. You may find an answer here.
Please note that compiling from source for Windows requires the appropriate version of Rtools that is compatible with the R version you are working with. This list is available at the Rtools site:
https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/
If compilation from source is complicated, it is also possible to find the Windows-compiled binaries (.zip files) for older versions of R at:
https://cran-archive.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib
This link is referenced by the ReadMe file available at the "regular" repository for Windows binaries for different versions of R, namely at:
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib
Once the zip file is downloaded, you can run the following R code line to install the package:
# Use repos=NULL so that the first argument is a path to the local zip file
# containing the binary package to install
# (as opposed to just the name of the package to install from the web)
install.packages("<local-path-to-downloaded-zip-file>", repos=NULL)
I'm trying to install the 'yaml' and 'stringi' packages in R-Studio, and it keeps giving me these errors:
> install.packages("stringi")
Package which is only available in source form, and may need compilation of C/C++/Fortran: ‘stringi’
These will not be installed
or
> install.packages('yaml')
Package which is only available in source form, and may need compilation of C/C++/Fortran: ‘yaml’
These will not be installed
How can I get these to install properly?
The error is due to R being unable to find a binary version of the package on CRAN, instead only finding a source version of the package and your Windows installation being unable to compile it. Usually this doesn't occur, but in this case was caused by the (temporary) outage of some of the mirrors at CRAN. If you type:
> getOption('repos')
CRAN CRANextra
"http://cran.rstudio.com" "http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin"
attr(,"RStudio")
[1] TRUE
You will see that R uses "http://cran.rstudio.com" by default to look for a package to download. If you see the cran mirrors web page you can see at the top that "http://cran.rstudio.com" actually redirects you to different servers world wide (I assume according to the geo location).
When I had the above issue, I solved it by manually changing the repo to one of the urls in the link provided. I suggest you use a different country (or even continent) in case you receive the above error.
I provide below some of the urls in case the link above changes:
Brazil http://nbcgib.uesc.br/mirrors/cran/
Italy http://cran.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/CRAN/
Japan http://cran.ism.ac.jp/
South Africa http://r.adu.org.za/
USA https://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/
You need to run the function install.packages as follows:
install.packages('<package_name>', repo='http://nbcgib.uesc.br/mirrors/cran/')
#or any other url from the list or link
One of them should then work to install a binary from an alternative mirror.
You need to install RTools to build packages like this (i.e., a source package rather than a binary). After you install Rtools, then try again to install.packages("ggplot2") and R will prompt you with:
Do you want to attempt to install these from source?
y/n:
(see the picture below)
You need to answer y and it will try to compile the package so it can be installed.
Struggled with this issue today, solved it for now by first downloading the windows binary and then installing e.g.
install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/stringi_1.1.1.zip", repos =NULL)
Just go to https://cran.r-project.org/ and then R Binaries/Windows/contrib and copy the url as argument to install.packages()
Install the package from a zip file - downloadable from the r-project website.
In basic R
go to Packages
Install packages from local files.
In RStudio
go to Packages
Install packages
Install from Package Archive File.
I had this issue when using an out-of-date version of R, so no binaries were available. The simple solution was to update my version of R.
Anything worked for me, until I found out my computer had an old version of R installed. Uninstalling everything and installing the newest R version worked!
I had to download the latest version of Rtools:
Go into the downloads folder and double click it to install it.
Close and reopen any R session.
Now packages should install like normal.
However, if you still have trouble, try installing the package from source (using type="source")
Like this:
install.packages("dplyr", type="source")
I was trying to install RTextTools package for R, but failed. Here is the output from the screen
> > install.packages("RTextTools")
Warning in install.packages("RTextTools") :
argument 'lib' is missing: using 'C:\Users\datamining\Documents/R/win-library/2.10'
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.10
Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
package ‘RTextTools’ is not available
What's the reason for this problem, and how to fix it? Thanks.
There are two distinct, but related, issues:
You are running version 2.10 of R which is two years old. CRAN supports only the current version with pre-built binaries. You could try installing from source.
RTextTools, as can be seen on its CRAN page also requires at least R version 2.13.
So in short: you should upgrade.
I have resolved the issue. I have Download RTextTools From Given Link.
https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/RTextTools/
and copy RTextTools_1.4.2.tar.gz file in project root folder then run this command in project folder in terminal
"R CMD INSTALL RTextTools_1.4.2.tar.gz"
After running this command I receive below error
"ERROR: dependencies ‘SparseM’, ‘randomForest’, ‘tree’, ‘e1071’, ‘ipred’, ‘caTools’, ‘maxent’, ‘glmnet’, ‘tau’ are not available for package ‘RTextTools’".
Now install each dependencies from RStudio or RConsole (Any Editor used by you) by simply running this code.
install.packages("caTools").
Install all 9 required packages One By One (In My Case it was 9 Packages Dependencies required by RTextTools) all packages will be installed except 'maxent'.
Now download maxent from the given link.
https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/maxent/.
and copy maxent_1.3.3.1.tar file in project folder then run this command in project folder in terminal.
"R CMD INSTALL maxent_1.3.3.1.tar"
Now For RTextTools Run this command again in Terminal.
"R CMD INSTALL RTextTools_1.4.2.tar.gz"
All is done Now..
But the Last Step is
Load the RTextTools using.
library(RTextTools)
You will see one more Error: Load SparseM Now Loading SparseM use code below.
library(SparseM)
and in the last Load RTextTools
library(RTextTools)
RTextTools is dependent on a number of packages, most of which require R 2.13+. You should always keep R updated to the latest version, since each update contains numerous bug fixes and performance enhancements.
If you can't install packages from repository or the packages are not available anymore, just follow this steps:
Install.packages("devtools")
check -- library("devtools")
install_github("cran/maxent")
install_github("cran/RTextTools")