Several of my students have had this type of difficulty with Rstudio. Rstudio masks install.packages with a similarly named function in an environment that does not appear in either conflicts(details=TRUE) or in search().
The workaround is an explicit call to utils utils::install.packages("package.name") Rich On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Vito M. R. Muggeo <vito.mug...@unipa.it> wrote: > dear John, > Thanks for your prompt reply > > Il 09/02/2016 16.23, Fox, John ha scritto: >> >> Dear Vito, >> >> I've never experienced this problem myself in a general way, > > Me too. I have always installed R packages straightforwardly.. > > and I'm sure that Windows users of R call install.packages() all the time to > install packages from CRAN mirrors. > Of course.. > > So the question to ask, I think, is what's preventing install.packages() > from working in your case -- possibly an Internet connectivity problem > due to a firewall, proxy server, use of https, etc. > I'm sure that others more knowledgeable about these issues than I am will > be able to make more specific suggestions for fixing the problem. > > However I have just checked that it works with *http* servers (but not for > any other *https*..) > > Thanks for your support, > best, > vito > > >> >> Best, >> John >> >> ----------------------------- >> John Fox, Professor >> McMaster University >> Hamilton, Ontario >> Canada L8S 4M4 >> web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox >> >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: R-help [r-help-boun...@r-project.org] on behalf of Vito M. R. Muggeo >> [vito.mug...@unipa.it] >> Sent: February 9, 2016 10:15 AM >> To: Sekhar Venkatesan; Duncan Murdoch; R-help@r-project.org >> Cc: r-wind...@r-project.org >> Subject: Re: [R] Help required for Rcmdr >> >> dear all, >> I don't know if that problem is related to the Rcmdr package itself.. >> (Sekhar try to install any other packages..) >> >> I am experiencing the same problem, in that when typing >> >> > install.packages("_ANY_PACKAGE_") >> >> I get the message >> Warning message: >> package ‘_ANY_PACKAGE_’ is not available (for R version 3.2.3) >> >> But I can download the .zip file and unzip it.. >> >> I tried different CRAN mirrors... >> >> best, >> vito >> >> >> Il 09/02/2016 12.44, Sekhar Venkatesan ha scritto: >>> >>> Dear Mr. Murdoch, >>> I am extremely sorry to have sent the mail to you instead of R-help. >>> Thanks >>> for directing me. >>> I have downloaded R 3.2.3 version. After that i asked for >>> install.packages("Rcmdr") . It says that Rcmdr is not available with >>> version 3.2.3. On looking at the pdf file for getting started with R, i >>> found that i should download with SDI Graphical interface which I did >>> once >>> again but still i could not get the Rcmdr console. >>> I attended a workshop where the faculty brought out the R console as well >>> as the R-commander console where i could import files and also do all the >>> statistics easily. I am not getting the R-commander console. >>> Shall be grateful if i could get help on getting the R-commander console >>> with the user friendly way of doing the statistical operations. >>> Thanks and regards, >>> Once again apologize to Dr. Duncan Murdoch for disturbing him. >>> Sekhar >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 08/02/2016 8:56 AM, Sekhar Venkatesan wrote: >>>> >>>>> Dear Sirs, >>>>> I have downloaded R 3.2.3 version from the CRAN site. I have tried to >>>>> download with both MDI and SDI user interface. But Rcmdr is not opening >>>>> in >>>>> as a console along with R console. Help is required to open Rcmdr. I >>>>> have >>>>> tried install.packages("Rcmdr"), library(Rcmdr) etc but to no avail. >>>>> thanks >>>>> Sekhar >>>>> Delhi >>>>> India >>>>> >>>>> This is the wrong email address for help. Please write to R-help, and >>>> >>>> describe what happens when you try the commands that are failing. >>>> >>>> Duncan Murdoch >>>> >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>> >> >> -- >> ============================================== >> Vito M.R. Muggeo >> Dip.to Sc Statist e Matem `Vianelli' >> Università di Palermo >> viale delle Scienze, edificio 13 >> 90128 Palermo - ITALY >> tel: 091 23895240 >> fax: 091 485726 >> http://dssm.unipa.it/vmuggeo >> Associate Editor, Statistical Modelling >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > -- > ============================================== > Vito M.R. Muggeo > Dip.to Sc Statist e Matem `Vianelli' > Università di Palermo > viale delle Scienze, edificio 13 > 90128 Palermo - ITALY > tel: 091 23895240 > fax: 091 485726 > http://dssm.unipa.it/vmuggeo > Associate Editor, Statistical Modelling > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.