I am installing different packages in R but I getting following error,even though I Installed Later Available R verson
Command:
install.packages("dataset")
Error:
package ‘dataset’ is not available (for R version 3.1.1)
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Naseer
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1It's `datasets` with an `s` on the end, but you shouldn't need to install it. You should already have it as part of base R. See `library(help = "datasets")` – Rich Scriven Aug 01 '14 at 21:56
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But I tried to Install other packages too like utils and grid with same error result? – Naseer Aug 01 '14 at 21:57
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1look at `search()` These are all packages that don't usually need to be installed once R itself is installed. – Rich Scriven Aug 01 '14 at 21:58
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what does search() do? – Naseer Aug 01 '14 at 22:00
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You probably want the datasets package, with an s. That's pretty popular.
If not, the package you're looking for is probably in a different repository (not CRAN). You can install packages from other repositories with the devtools package. For example, if it's on GitHub you can type:
install.packages("devtools")
require(devtools)
install_github("packageName")
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