If you are on Windows, you can follow the instructions here to build packages from source. I had the same problem installing graph package from archive. The package is required for another package bnclasify. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Install R packages in archive Ask Question.
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You may need Rtools for windows source installations. Add a comment. Packages are listed alphabetically with a short description. CRAN also maintains a set of Task Views that identify all the packages associated with a particular task. The maintainers of these views do a generally excellent job of staying on top of their area of interest and giving a detailed summary of which packages do what. The basics of package installation are given in chapter 6 of R Installation and Administration.
There are two ways to do a command line installation of packages: from the R command line and from the shell command line. Within R you can use install. This will always attempt to install the latest version of packages it knows about. You can also invoke R from the command line. This is useful for some packages when install. To install packages this way you must first download the package source to your local machine.
Here is a quick demonstration:. If you have total control over your system and always keep it at the bleeding edge then you will have no problem installing the latest and greatest versions of R packages. You should start by determining what version of R you have:.
At least some of the releases should also work. Perusing the sp archive, we might try installing version 0. Over time, your package library will contain more and more packages. Or perhaps system administrators or other users have also installed packages. This is where the location of the package library comes in handy. To see all the package versions on our Ubuntu system we could just type:. The following example shows how to access this information programmatically from within R:.
You will also find useful examples to understand how the package works. In addition, you can find out where the packages are going to be installed calling the. You may have downloaded a package in zip or tar. In order to install the package from a local zip file you just need to call the install. You can also set your working environment first with the setwd function to the folder where you have downloaded the package file and then install the package specifying the name of the zip or tar.
The last option is to use the menu. In case you have the zip hosted in some URL you can use the install. Note you can also install packages from CRAN even older versions this way. If you need to install several packages at once without writing the same function over and over again, you can make use of the c function within the install. Note that now the quotation marks are needed to specify the packages names.
In the following sections you will learn how to install packages from other available sources. GitHub is a well-known code sharing platform. If you go to the page, you can search for R packages using the search bar and writing something like: plot package language:R in case you want to look for graphics packages. Suppose, for instance, that you want to download the development version of the ggplot2 package from GitHub.
The URL would look like:. The first step is to install and load the devtools package, available in CRAN. In case you encounter some error means you also need to install the RTools. The :: operator allows you to call functions from a package without the need of loading it. R Forge project is a web with package development tools and repositories. As an example, if you would like to install the MPAgenomics package, you have to specify in the repos argument of the install.
The dependencies argument is used when repos is not NULL , to specify whether the dependencies of the package that are not installed must be installed or not.
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