Dependency error in installing packages in R

Question

Hi I am relatively new user of R. Installed R on win8. Now I am trying to install packages but i getting following error:

install.packages("C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/pROC_1.5.4.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")
Warning in install.packages :
  InternetOpenUrl failed: 'The server name or address could not be resolved'
Warning in install.packages :
  InternetOpenUrl failed: 'The server name or address could not be resolved'
Warning in install.packages :
  unable to access index for repository http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0
Warning in install.packages :
  InternetOpenUrl failed: 'The server name or address could not be resolved'
Warning in install.packages :
  InternetOpenUrl failed: 'The server name or address could not be resolved'
Warning in install.packages :
  unable to access index for repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.0
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/pROC_1.5.4.tar.gz’ is not available (for R version 3.0.1)
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Owner/Documents/R/win-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
ERROR: dependency 'plyr' is not available for package 'pROC'
* removing 'C:/Users/Owner/Documents/R/win-library/3.0/pROC'
Warning in install.packages :
  running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.1/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\Owner\Documents\R\win-library\3.0" "C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/pROC_1.5.4.tar.gz"' had status 1
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/pROC_1.5.4.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

You need to install the *plyr* package before. Why do you don't install the packages from CRAN via `install.packages("pROC")`? I don't use windows but AFAIK you will need Rtools to install R packages from local. — sgibb, Aug 01 '13 at 15:31
In addition to everything @sgibb said, I recommend upgrading to the latest version of R to make package management simple. It looks like CRAN mirrors maintain packages for R only as far back as R 3.2. You can get packages for older versions, but it will be a lot more work. — user8617947, Mar 11 '20 at 04:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

Installing the plyr package won't make a lot of difference since pROC is not supported for your R distribution. Also since you use Rstudio you might find it easier to install packages via

Tools>Install Packages

and then set

Install from:

to

Repository(CRAN).

That way you don't have to manually download them. As an alternative to pROC you can maybe use ROCR. Also this might be of interest if you were planning to use pROC to calculate the area under the curve, anyway I'm digressing.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 01 '13 at 15:40

it would appear that the immediate problem is the fact that you are using forward slashes instead of backslashes, were you to change that it would look like this:

install.packages("C:\\Users\\Owner\\Downloads\\pROC_1.5.4.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")

Good luck!

Dependency error in installing packages in R

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