cannot install plyr package in R

Question

I am having difficulties with installing plyr in R. The very same problem has been posted in various forums before, but none of the suggested solutions there worked for. To summarize, I am trying to install it using this command (output below):

install.packages("plyr") 

Installing package into ‘/home/m2108/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘plyr’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2)

Then I have tried to manually download the package from the cran server and use this command instead and receive the same error:

install.packages("~/Downloads/plyr_1.8.2.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")
Installing package into ‘/home/m2108/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

ERROR: this R is version 3.0.2, package 'plyr' requires R >= 3.1.0
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘/home/m2108/Downloads/plyr_1.8.2.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

I have also switched repositores (or added others) with this command: setRepositories()

Does anyone have an idea, what I might be doing wrong?

I have just tried to install the 'doBy' package and received the same error message. So apparently it is not a 'plyr' specific problem. — Niccola Tartaglia, May 03 '15 at 11:29
Short Update: When I tried to install 'doBy' from the command line R, instead of R Studio, it suddenly worked (i.e. it asked me to select a CRAN mirror and the downloaded it). — Niccola Tartaglia, May 03 '15 at 11:35
Like I said, I tried the suggested solution from the other question (try to downloadit manually from CRAN and set repos=NULL) but I receive the same error message. — Niccola Tartaglia, May 03 '15 at 15:24

cannot install plyr package in R

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