[R] Trouble installing plyr

[Gabor Grothendieck]

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On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Andrew Choens <andy.choens at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to learn how to use the reshape package. The reshape package is
> not included in the Ubuntu repositories, so I attempted to install
> reshape with:
>
> install.packages("reshape")
>
> This is what I got for output:
>
>        Warning in install.packages("reshape") :
>          argument 'lib' is missing: using
>        '/home/andy/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.7'
>        --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>        Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
>        trying URL
>        'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/contrib/reshape_0.8.2.tar.gz'
>        Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 38137 bytes (37 Kb)
>        opened URL
>        ==================================================
>        downloaded 37 Kb
>
>        * Installing *source* package 'reshape' ...
>        ** R
>        ** data
>        **  moving datasets to lazyload DB
>        ** inst
>        ** preparing package for lazy loading
>        Loading required package: plyr
>        Warning in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return =
>        TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc) :
>          there is no package called 'plyr'
>        Error: package 'plyr' could not be loaded
>        Execution halted
>        ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'reshape'
>        ** Removing '/home/andy/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.7/reshape'
>
>        The downloaded packages are in
>                /tmp/RtmpMZhsTp/downloaded_packages
>        Warning messages:
>        1: In install.packages("reshape") : dependency 'plyr' is not
>        available
>        2: In install.packages("reshape") :
>          installation of package 'reshape' had non-zero exit status
>
> I tried this, using several different mirrors, hoping that the problem
> was isolated to the PA mirrors. But, no matter which mirror I use, I get
> the same error. My central problem appears to be an inability to install
> plyr.
>
>        > install.packages("plyr")
>        Warning in install.packages("plyr") :
>          argument 'lib' is missing: using
>        '/home/andy/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.7'
>        Warning message:
>        In install.packages("plyr") : package 'plyr' is not available
>
>
> Again, the mirror does not matter. I can not install plyr. I am pretty
> confident that my syntax is correct, but I do not understand why I can
> not install plyr. I don't think the problem is related to my connection,
> since this computer is able to surf the Internet and send email (such as
> this one). When I googled for problems installing plyr, I got a zillion
> instructions on how to install the XXXX player.
>
> Ideas are appreciated.
>
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