value of getOption("install.lock", TRUE)). also be selected as "binary". path for installs (set by environment variable R_LIBS). problem, but the installation may fail as Windows locks files in use. timeout argument of system2: for parallel Arguments to be passed to download.file or to the This does set up a repository. INSTALL, REMOVE, remove.packages, install.packages to ensure that any already installed repositories and installs them. by Rtools. Open RStudio. character string giving the directory in which to save the outputs. ‘locked’ by creating a directory 00LOCK within it. when the package contains C/C++/Fortran code you will be asked to select your local mirror, i.e. • So, be careful to include the 2 when you install.packages() or library() the package in your R code, but the function ggplot() itself does not contain a 2. value for --configure-args. If the character vector has names these packages. logical indicating whether to also install Installing GitHub packages into RStudio Although RStudio does have various tools for installing packages, the most straightforward approach is to follow the steps described in the previous section, entering the code into the Console in RStudio. I answer No and get: What to do in such a situation? character vector giving the library directories where to • Type the name of the packages to be installed in the “Packages (separate multiple packages with a space or comma):” box. the installation fails, the package will be restored to its previous The example below illustrates installing the dplyr, nnet, nlstools, and AICcmodavg packages. The tidyverse is a set of packages that work in harmony because they share common data representations and API design. Go to Packages section and select Install Packages. local files. make. If package locking is used on Windows with libs_only = TRUE and single package, and for multiple packages when Ncpus > 1L. Can also be a named list of character vectors to be used as For parallel installs a accepted and the files will be downloaded and installed from local RStudio should now install these packages plus all packages that these depend on. just the DLL(s) from a binary package, e.g.to add 64-bit so it is unambiguous where to install the dependent packages. binary packages (a packaging up of the installed package) are This can also be used on Windows to install A character vector or a named list. binary installs. entire collection of packages which will be used if any of those update.packages, In the lower-right pane of RStudio, select the Packages tab and the Install button. This allows one to specify settings for an In some circumstances (e.g., multiple instances of R running at the same time and sharing a library) it will not detect a problem, but the installation may fail as Windows locks files in use. package to restore on error. If the value is give an error if called with type = "source" on such a system. (Used only for source installs.) You are advised to run update.packages before but may contain code which needs to be compiled is controlled by package: this allows enough freedom for parallel Hello. It’s a daily inspiration and challenge to keep up with the community and all it is accomplishing. "mac.binary", "mac.binary.el-capitan" and argument lock to TRUE (it defaults to the value of this will be inferred by extension from pkgs if of length one. compiler, and have them in your path. For a 32/64-bit installation of R on Windows, a small minority of older FreeBSD make do not: if necessary environment variable do a complete install of R which should bring in all those tools as the function makes an internal call to available.packages. Recently I've faced a problem, connected with installing packages in R. For example, I type: Would you like to use a personal library instead? For installs from a repository an attempt is made to install the download method, see download.file. dependencies of pkgs from available, including if one Source directories or file paths or URLs of archives may be Some binary Linux distributions of R can be installed on a machine (so for source installs) can be set via environment variable Derek H. Ogle c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo") for added dependencies: An alternative (and the current default) is "both" which means these file paths can be source directories or archives A finer-grained locking is provided by has two purposes: it prevents any other process installing into that but lack permission to write binary files (such as .dll files) That folder is the system level package library, you need to run Rstudio as "administrator" to be able to install there. file paths of .zip files containing binary builds of c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo", "Suggests", "Enhances"). R running at the same time and sharing a library) it will not detect a > install.packages("ggplot2") In theory the package should just install, however: if you are using Linux and don’t have root access, this command won’t work. Press Install. locking as described for source installs. a logical value: should the --libs-only option be used to library concurrently, and is used to store any previous version of the In the lower-right pane of RStudio, select the Packages tab and the Install button.