How to remove R package that has dependencies on other packages? - r

I've installed a R package (PathRanker) that depends on packages (xml,Rgraphviz,Rcurl). I've noticed that the all the packages' folders inside the library shows some sort of a locked sign.
I tried to remove PathRanker using the R CMD REMOVE but it didnt works. I tried to reinstall the package (which I kindda mess around with the code) it also didnt works. So I think it got something to do with the dependency packages. Can someone help me? thanks...

You might have installed the packages as root (if you are using Linux), and trying to remove the package as normal user.
Start an R session as root (sudo R), and try to remove (see: ?remove.packages) the packages in this environment. Or from console:sudo R CMD REMOVE (package name)
If still not working, please write more about the error messages.

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Difficulty installing a package in R linux, dalton_rqi

Downloaded package from below URL.
Attempted to install using below command; response shown.
library(dalton.rqi,lib.loc='/home/X/Desktop/')
Error: package ‘dalton.rqi’ was built before R 3.0.0: please re-install it
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/anesthesiology/depts/outcomes-research/risk-quantification
It appears this is a compiled package that maybe I don't have the source for? Is there a way to force install of the package? I'm unable to install using Rstudio GUI in its current form as a zip. Tried repackaging to tar.gz has Rstudio was looking for and also had a non-zero exit status error.
Any ideas?
I'm afraid this can't be achieved directly. The error message says it well: to use a package in R it needs to be built on an R version matching yours.
I can suggest two ways to move forward:
Contact the authors, ask for the R sources (it is somewhat surprising they did not make them available in the first place), and build the package yourself.
Downgrade your R version as far back as needed to match the one this pre-built package used.

R packages with Anaconda

I have Anaconda and I am learning to use it. I also installed R with it. It creates a separate enviroment " rstudio" with the default packages, but a lot of them appear with r-<name of the original package>, for example readxl is shown in the Anaconda enviroment as r-readxl. When I try to run in Rstudio, regardless of whether I type the original name of the package or the full "r-readxl" it does not find it. It says: there is no package called ‘r-readxl’.
Is there a way to tell Rsutdio that the packages in the Anaconda file are the ones of reference? How can I fix this?

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

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.

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.

Installing packages upon starting R session

I am fairly new to R programming. I am trying to customize my R setup so that when an R session is started a few packages are installed at the beginning. I know that there is a .First() function that I can write in the Rprofile.site file. However, upon adding my install package code inside the .First() function, the package does not get installed.
Furthermore, it seems to go into a loop of trying to create the package and it creates a lock file in the library folder in R. This causes my computer to really slow down (almost to the point where it is frozen) because it keeps trying to install that package.
Here is the code that I have added to the end of the Rprofile.site file.
.First <- function() {
install.packages("customPackage.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")
cat("\nWelcome to R on ", date(), "\n")
}
I even tried adding the install.packages line just by itself in the file (without having a .First() function) to no avail.
The customPackage.tar.gz refers to a package I built up using existing code that I have written up. Since this is a custom package, the repos is NULL. If I do not include this line in my .First() function and just run the command after launching the R session, the package gets installed just fine in the R/R-2.15.0/library folder.
There are several custom packages that I need to have installed upon the beginning of an R session, and that's why it is important that I add all these installation lines of code in the Rprofile.site file. Any ideas on how I can do this? Everywhere I have looked online on customizing the Rprofile.site file shows examples of just using libraries that already exist (For example, library(R2HTML)), but nothing for installing new libraries. Thanks for the help!
Edit: Thanks for the help guys! I actually do need to install these packages in multiple machines for each user and instead of having them manually install the package once, I figured it'll be good to do it in the site file. I tried Justin's suggestion for checking the package first and that worked! Thanks for the help again!
Unless you're switching from computer to computer you should have this package already in your library (that is once you install a package once it should always be there). Use installed.packages() [,1] or library() to see all packages in your library. If you see it there then use this:
.First <- function() {
require(customPackage)
cat("\nWelcome to R on ", date(), "\n")
}

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