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The R function to install packages from a specified package repository.

The R function to install packages from a specified package repository.

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How do I install an R package from source?

A friend sent me along this great tutorial on webscraping The New York Times with R. I would really love to try it. However, the first step is to install a package called [RJSONIO][2] from source. I know R reasonably well, but I have no idea how to…
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"Non Zero Exit Status" R 3.0.1 'XML' and 'RCurl'

I am having a bit of trouble installing XML and RCurl on my Ubuntu machine 13.10. I performed all sudo update and upgrades today. I am trying to use rattle for R. I am unable to install 'XML' which is required for the use of rattle. This is pretty…
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Is there something like requirements.txt for R?

Is there a functionality like requirements.txt in Python, where you can store a list of packages used into a file, and whenever other people want to run your programs and need to install the dependencies, they can just do pip install -r…
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Install R packages using docker file

I have installed R using below line in my docker file. Please suggest how do I specify now packages to be installed in my docker file. RUN yum -y install R-core R-devel I'm doing something like this: RUN R -e…
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Warning "downloaded length != reported length" in installing packages from CRAN

Searching on stackoverflow questions, I found out this link: Error in file.download when downloading custom file . However, my case is a little bit different (I think): 1) I get this annoying warning when installing some packages from CRAN (or also…
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Installing package - cannot open file - permission denied

I'm working in RStudio and am attempting to install the dplyr package. I have installed various other packages without problem but have hit a problem with this. It seems there are various parts to the install, some of these worked but the problem…
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Installing an R package from local unzipped folder

I am having difficulty installing an unzipped package on a Windows 7 computer without administrative privileges and no internet access. I am using the RGui (not RStudio). Right now I have an unzipped library sitting in a directory. Unfortunately,…
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Installing private package from Github Package registry fails with not found/not authorized

I created and published a private Github package. Trying to install it with yarn at first, I face the following issue: Whether I try with yarn or npm, it cannot find the package at all although following the exact steps documented by Github…
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Do I have to install packages needed each time when I start Google Colab?

I am using Google colab for one of my projects. I have a list of packages which I need to run the notebook perfectly. So, should I have to install all packages each time I start colab or only installing once I can use them forever?
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ERROR: 'configure' exists but is not executable -- see the 'R Installation and Administration Manual'

Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian ERROR: 'configure' exists but is not executable -- see the 'R Installation and Administration Manual' Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘e1071’ had non-zero exit status If you run into the error-code…
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How to specify (non-R) library path for dynamic library loading in R?

I keep getting the following error when attempting to install readxl or haven in R (both dependencies of tidyverse) post-compilation, when the installer runs the loading test: ** testing if installed package can be loaded Error in dyn.load(file,…
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R - when trying to install package: InternetOpenUrl failed

Since I've updated both R (to 3.2.2) and RStudio (to 0.99.486) in Win 7, I'm experiencing problems downloading packages. I'm aware of the questions asked here but neither setInternet2(TRUE) nor changing the CRAN mirror helped. The "Tools -> Global…
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What type of object is an R package?

Probably a pretty basic question but a friend and I tried to run str(packge_name) and R threw us an error. Now that I'm looking at it, I'm wondering if an R package is like a .zip file in that it is a collection of objects, say pictures and songs,…
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Unable to install.packages(): system call failed: Cannot allocate memory; installation of package had non-zero exit status

I'm using R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31) -- "Pumpkin Helmet" on Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit). I have an issue installing new packages in R, using RStudio. When I call the install.packages() function, I get: Warning in install.packages…
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MySQL: Package 'mysql-server' has no installation candidate

This error is being shown whenever I want to install any software via command line. Even if i try to install softwares which I know are present at the source from where I am downloading. Below is the full error message i am getting : Reading package…
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