how to read a SAS data (.sas7bat) in R [duplicate] - r

I am trying to embed RInside to my application on win7 64-bit system but when I initialize an RInside:
Rin = new RInside(argc, argv);
the following message appears:
Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'Rcpp'
This error only occurs with Windows.

I think you get that issue when your .libPaths() differ--in other words run the .libPaths() function to see the paths stored by R for its use. Then check where RInside is installed, and make sure Rcpp is installed there too. It is a setup issue.
In other words, it should work if you have Rcpp and RInside installed where the basic R libraries are. Otherwise you have to tell the (embedded) R session about the other location (and before it starts).
There are more Windows users on the list, so you could try asking on rcpp-devel.

First get your default library locations by command ".Library" in R.
Get Rcpp package from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/index.html.
Unzip and copy folder "Rcpp" to your default library locations obtained from step1.
Now you are ready to install packages which have dependencies on Rcpp.

Dirk is right in this case, BUT if the .libPaths() does not work, then please also check if you have the latest packages.
I am posting this as an ancillary answer backup which I ran into with the shiny package backend switch of their code needing Rcpp!
In this case of getting the "no package" error message, I fixed it by:
Selecting devtools package and then using this line below. (if you don't have devtools then get it with install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("rstudio/shiny")
The development version of the package handled this better, and added the package as a dependency.
Mods - I realize this is an answer to an old question, but I might help others not wasting an hour like I just did.

You might find it easy if the answers are for both R studio users and non R studio users.
R Studio users
First get your default library locations by command ".Library" in R.
Get Rcpp package from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/index.html.
Unzip and copy folder "Rcpp" to your default library locations obtained from step 1, you will find another folder named library, paste the unzip folder in it.
Non R studio Users
First get your default library locations by command ".libPath" in R.
Get Rcpp package from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/index.html.
Unzip and copy folder "Rcpp" to your default library locations obtained from step 1, you will find another folder named library, paste the unzip folder in it.

I was also getting this error while trying to run the 'ggplot' function from the ggplot2 package. After trying the suggestions posted here and elsewhere (checking file paths, restarting R, clearing out my environment, etc.) and encountering several other cryptic error messages, it turned out that I needed to download the latest version of base R for Windows (v3.4.1) and update my version of R-Studio to the latest version also (v1.0.153).
After doing this my 'ggplot' function was working again and I was able to render my figure from R Studio without any further issues.

I was also getting this message when trying to use ggplot. I first updating both my R for Windows to 3.4.3. Then updating R studio to version 1.1.423; then, updating all of the packages and being sure to access the R version 3.4.3 from R studio, I still got the message. None of these things fixed the error. I was ready to give up until I noticed that I was calling library(ggplot) and had ggplot::ggplot in my code. THIS WAS THE PROBLEM. I changed it to library(ggplot2) and the instance to ggplot2::ggplot(...). THIS FIXEd the problems.

I was facing a similar issue, and I simply installed the said package. It's working perfectly for me.

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Which runtime is getting referenced

I have installed R at following location C:\E_Drive\ProgramFiles\R-3.4.3, so I think R environment installed at C:\E_Drive\ProgramFiles\R-3.4.3 will be used when I run the R console, right? Please correct me if I am wrong.
Now, I install a package using the R console.
Now, I download and install RStudio and from the R console of RStudio if I check whether that package is available or not then I see that it is available. I am wondering, how RStudio's R console reported that package is available, I didn't expect that since C:\E_Drive\ProgramFiles\R-3.4.3 is not on my PATH and in no way is linked RStudio with C:\E_Drive\ProgramFiles\R-3.4.3, so I thought RStudio would be referring its own R environment.
Can you please help me understand how my RStudio is referencing the C:\E_Drive\ProgramFiles\R-3.4.3 R environment.
R normally installs packages in the same directory tree as its own binary, but it can also install them elsewhere. On Windows, this generally happens because regular users often don't have write permission in the Program Files directory. The standard Windows installer also records R's location in the registry, so that it doesn't need to be on the PATH to be found by RStudio.
You can find out where Windows or RStudio found R by running R.home() within R. You can find out where R is finding packages in a particular session by running .libPaths().

R: Error in install.packages : cannot open the connection

I was trying to install the package RINDSEL but I am unable to install it and I keep getting the following error:
Error in install.packages : cannot open the connection
I downloaded the package from:
rindsel_1.0_2.zip | Integrated Breeding Platform
and loaded it from the directory. Other packages from the directory can be installed but just not this one.
Is the package corrupt or could there be any other error?
I would really be grateful for any help. Thanks in advance
Rename the zip file RinSel Software into Rindsel. That's the name specified in the discription file.
Then, you can install the package in R with the command
install.packages("C:/path/to/Rindsel.zip",repos=NULL,type="win.binary")
That works fine... at first (!!!).
Problem with the Rindsel package is. It is quite old. It was build with R 2.13.1. Therefore, if you want to load the library which would be the next step to use the package in R you will get the error:
Problems building package (Error: "package has been build before R-3.0.0")
My suggestion: Contact the authors of the package and ask them if they can either provide the source file that you can build the package by yourself or if they can bundle the Rindsel package with a newer R version.
(Or you could try to hunt down an old R version and see if you can get the thing running with an old R... However, I would not seriously suggest to do that. It would probably result in conflicting dependencies with the other required packages...)
EDIT 15-02-2018: OP asked if one can build an R package with sources that are presumeably the Rindsel source files.
Yes, basically, you could do that. You would have to make a your own description and namespace file and put the source file in the R folder than invoke the command in R to build it....
But it's not neccessary with the script files provided by the link the OP posted.
OP, just run the scripts in R! It's quite easy.
Download the zip-file and extract it on your machine.
Go to that directory. The R command would be
setwd('path/to/your/directory')
Than run the R script, e.g, the KNIndex.r. It's simple:
source('KNIndex.r')
Then the script will run and produce some output / prompts.
For future readers,
I was able to fix the error by running RStudio with administrative privileges to get the command to work.
If that does not fix it, you might wish to try
Installing "r tools" if that is not installed already. That can be downloaded from
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/
Download a relevant package that you are trying to install (e.g., tidyverse_1.3.0.zip) from https://cran.rstudio.com/
and install that from local path
It can also be installed directly from the web using install.packages("https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/tidyverse_1.3.0.zip")
I had the same problem. R was not able to extract and compile the package files to the default installation directory for some system-specific reasons (not R related).
I was able to fix this by specifying the installation directory of the package lib using:
install.packages("your package", lib = 'path/to your/required/installation/directory')
You can then load the package by specifying the lib.loc option while loading it:
library('your package', lib.loc='path/to your/required/installation/directory')
A better solution:
Create a new environment variable (if you are using windows) R_LIBS_USER with the following directory path/to your/required/installation/directory.
This will change the default installation directory of the packages and make it easier to load and install them without specifying the location everytime.

In continuation to previously asked "Unable to work with R-extension in NetLogo"

After changing all the needed environment varaibles ( Control Panel/ System/Advanced system settings/Environment Variables) in windows 8, when I am installing rJava Package I get errors as below
I tried in MsDOS immediately after changing environment variables,
first step >R "it was successful"
second >install.packages("rJava") "got error in this step"
then I tried >install.packages("rJava", repos="https://cran.rstudio.com/") "but again I did not succeeded"
I am tired of trying all this, I referred many links already but all in vain. Yes, I am using Proxy also. Please help any one.
1) It seems a download problem first. So do this:
Download rJava_0.9-8.zip from CRAN (cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rJava/index.html). Then, in Revolution R Enterprise; Packages - "Install Packages From local Zip Files..." - Choose rJava_0.9-8.zip - OK. If the problem is solved then OK.
If the problem persists, try the following Step.
2) Look at DESCRIPTION file in rJava (in library location):
Package: rJava
Version: 0.9-8
....
Depends: R (>= 2.5.0), methods
....
NeedsCompilation: yes
Your R version may be incompatible. Look at the warning: "rJava is not available for R3.3.0" in your screenshot. So do this:
Unzip file rJava_0.9-8.zip to R's working directory; the folder rJava is created there. Change R version accordingly (you may introduce lower version number in Depends section). Save the changed DESCRIPTION file. Apply classical procedure:
library(roxygen2) # install this package first if not done yet
library(devtools) # install this package first if not done yet
library(digest) # install this package first if not done yet
Note: Since rJava folder is created manually, no package.skeleton is needed at this stage.
roxygenize("rJava")
build("rJava")
install("rJava")
The above technique must solve the problem (It solved previously many R version problems!).
Analyze this one also:
Install a specific release of bioconductor package (where the solution I wrote solved the problem of the questioner).
If you still have problems, trigger the following:
sessionInfo(); getwd(); .libPaths()
and print the output in your question so that we can analyze if you have any machine-spesific or installation-spesific problems.

Why does building an R package stop my code from working?

It seams that upon installing my custom R package code stops to work? Why?
In detail, I have a tiny R package goEnrichment (click to see the Github repo). The R package includes just just two functions and some binary data.
Also there are two test R-scripts that I run after installing the R package with R CMD INSTALL goEnrichment. One test script fails while the other works.
The only difference between the two scripts is that in the working version I require the necessary libraries and source the functions file manually, while in the other failing script I require my goEnrichment library directly.
Note, that both scripts are started directly from their directory goEnrichment/exec.
Start the working test with cd goEnrichment/exec && Rscript testGoEnrichment_works.R. Excerpt:
# This is the WORKING version
require(GOstats)
require(GSEABase)
require(RMySQL)
source( "../R/goEnrichment.R" )
Start the failing test script with cd goEnrichment/exec && Rscript testGoEnrichment_fail.R. Excerpt:
# This version FAILS
require(goEnrichment)
The error I get is somewhat uninformative to me:
'dimnames' applied to non-array.
The built R package fails on two platforms, that is on Debian Wheezy 64 with R 3.0.2 and on Mac OS X Yosemite with R 3.1.1.
I really have no clue why this happens. I checked for file format and unexpected characters using Vim. The cause does not seem to be the DESCRIPTION file either, because all libraries, goEnrichment depends on, are imported.
Does any one have a clue what causes this very weird error? Help will be much appreciated.
After much testing I found the source of the problem.
For some reason when requiring my package with
require(goEnrichment)
the generic function
summary.GOHyperGResult
is not loaded, as it should be. The method however is available when the packages, goEnrichment depends upon, are required manually. As to why this is, I had no time to investigate. I believe the here reported error is related to this bug.
Thanks to Tyler for your efforts, very much!

Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'Rcpp'

I am trying to embed RInside to my application on win7 64-bit system but when I initialize an RInside:
Rin = new RInside(argc, argv);
the following message appears:
Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'Rcpp'
This error only occurs with Windows.
I think you get that issue when your .libPaths() differ--in other words run the .libPaths() function to see the paths stored by R for its use. Then check where RInside is installed, and make sure Rcpp is installed there too. It is a setup issue.
In other words, it should work if you have Rcpp and RInside installed where the basic R libraries are. Otherwise you have to tell the (embedded) R session about the other location (and before it starts).
There are more Windows users on the list, so you could try asking on rcpp-devel.
First get your default library locations by command ".Library" in R.
Get Rcpp package from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/index.html.
Unzip and copy folder "Rcpp" to your default library locations obtained from step1.
Now you are ready to install packages which have dependencies on Rcpp.
Dirk is right in this case, BUT if the .libPaths() does not work, then please also check if you have the latest packages.
I am posting this as an ancillary answer backup which I ran into with the shiny package backend switch of their code needing Rcpp!
In this case of getting the "no package" error message, I fixed it by:
Selecting devtools package and then using this line below. (if you don't have devtools then get it with install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("rstudio/shiny")
The development version of the package handled this better, and added the package as a dependency.
Mods - I realize this is an answer to an old question, but I might help others not wasting an hour like I just did.
You might find it easy if the answers are for both R studio users and non R studio users.
R Studio users
First get your default library locations by command ".Library" in R.
Get Rcpp package from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/index.html.
Unzip and copy folder "Rcpp" to your default library locations obtained from step 1, you will find another folder named library, paste the unzip folder in it.
Non R studio Users
First get your default library locations by command ".libPath" in R.
Get Rcpp package from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/index.html.
Unzip and copy folder "Rcpp" to your default library locations obtained from step 1, you will find another folder named library, paste the unzip folder in it.
I was also getting this error while trying to run the 'ggplot' function from the ggplot2 package. After trying the suggestions posted here and elsewhere (checking file paths, restarting R, clearing out my environment, etc.) and encountering several other cryptic error messages, it turned out that I needed to download the latest version of base R for Windows (v3.4.1) and update my version of R-Studio to the latest version also (v1.0.153).
After doing this my 'ggplot' function was working again and I was able to render my figure from R Studio without any further issues.
I was also getting this message when trying to use ggplot. I first updating both my R for Windows to 3.4.3. Then updating R studio to version 1.1.423; then, updating all of the packages and being sure to access the R version 3.4.3 from R studio, I still got the message. None of these things fixed the error. I was ready to give up until I noticed that I was calling library(ggplot) and had ggplot::ggplot in my code. THIS WAS THE PROBLEM. I changed it to library(ggplot2) and the instance to ggplot2::ggplot(...). THIS FIXEd the problems.
I was facing a similar issue, and I simply installed the said package. It's working perfectly for me.

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