[R] can't find and install reshape2??

[Uwe Ligges]

My guess is you are using an outdated R version for which the rather new 
reshape2 package has not been compiled.

Uwe Ligges


On 12.10.2010 08:23, chris howden wrote:
> Just wanted to say that I've gone onto the CRAN website and downloaded it
> directly from there.
>
> So its no longer a problem for me.
>
> But it may be one for other people, it is kinda weird I couldn't see it on
> the list of packages on 4 mirrors!!!!!!
>
> Thanks for your help though.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chris howden [mailto:tall.chriss at yahoo.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 October 2010 3:48 PM
> To: 'Jeffrey Spies'; 'David Winsemius'
> Cc: 'r-help at r-project.org'
> Subject: RE: [R] can't find and install reshape2??
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> Thanks for your suggestions and sorry for the delay in replying, I've been
> having one of those weeks.
>
> I feel a little silly not trying the package name input as a character
> string, I should have know that. However I have tried your suggestions and
> neither worked. The code and error messages are at the bottom of this email
> and U can see the reason would appear the "reshape2" package is not
> available on the repositories I'm trying to access.
>
> I then tried closing R, reopening it and looking in the following CRAN
> mirrors:
> Australia
> UK(London)
> Canada(BC)
> USA(AZ)
>
> Reshape 2 was in none of them, my choices were:
> ResearchMethods
> Reshape
> ResistorArray
>
> But no reshape2!!!!
>
> Any ideas as to why I can't see reshape2?
>
> Is it just me or are other people having this problem?
>
> thanks
>
>> download.packages('reshape2', destdir="c:\\")
> Warning in download.packages("reshape2", destdir = "c:\\") :
>    no package 'reshape2' at the repositories
>       [,1] [,2]
>
>
>> install.packages('reshape2')
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>    package ‘reshape2’ is not available
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Jeffrey Spies
> Sent: Monday, 4 October 2010 10:57 AM
> To: Chris Howden
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] can't find and install reshape2??
>
> The first argument in download.packages should be of type character or
> a vector of characters.
>
> This worked for me:
>
> install.packages('reshape2')
>
> as did:
>
> download.packages('reshape2', '~/Downloads/')
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff.
>
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Chris Howden
> <chris at trickysolutions.com.au>  wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m trying to install reshape2.
>>
>>
>>
>> But when I click on “install package” it’s not coming up!?!?! I’m getting
>> reshape, but no reshape2?
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ve also tried download.packages(reshape2, destdir="c:\\")&
>> download.packages(Reshape2, destdir="c:\\")…but no luck!!!
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas what could be going on?
>>
>>
>>
>> Chris Howden
>>
>> Founding Partner
>>
>> Tricky Solutions
>>
>> Tricky Solutions 4 Tricky Problems
>>
>> Evidence Based Strategic Development, IP development, Data Analysis,
>> Modelling, and Training
>>
>> (mobile) 0410 689 945
>>
>> (fax / office) (+618) 8952 7878
>>
>> chris at trickysolutions.com.au
>>
>>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>
>>
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.