[R] Repeated failures to install "caret" package (of Max Kuhn)

[Uwe Ligges]

On 04.04.2015 19:56, Max Kuhn wrote:
> I thought that this might be relevant:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28985759/cant-install-the-caret-package-in-r-in-my-linux-machine
>
> but it seems that you installed nloptr.
>
> I would also suggest doing the install in base R and trying a different
> mirror. I would avoid installing via RStudio unless you have just started a
> new R session.

Private communication showed that the OP did not have liblapack nor 
libblas in the standard locations.

Best,
Uwe Ligges


>
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 11:11 AM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
>
>> Try installing from somewhere outside of RStudio or reboot and retry in
>> RStudio.  I find that if RStudio is open for a long time I occasionally get
>> some weird (buggy?) results but I cannot reproduce to send in an bug report.
>>
>> Load R  and from the command line or Windows RGui try installing.  As a
>> test I just installed it successully with the command
>> "install.packages("caret")" executed in R (using gedit with its
>> R-plug-in) and running Ubuntu 14.04
>>
>>
>> For future reference:
>> Reproducibility
>> https://github.com/hadley/devtools/wiki/Reproducibility
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> John Kane
>> Kingston ON Canada
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: wyllys at ischool.utexas.edu
>>> Sent: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 16:07:57 -0500
>>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>>> Subject: [R] Repeated failures to install "caret" package (of Max Kuhn)
>>>
>>> For an edx course, MIT's "The Analtics Edge", I need to install the
>>> "caret" package that was originated and is maintained by Dr. Max Kuhn of
>>> Pfizer. So far, every effort I've made to try to
>>> install.packages("caret") has failed.  (I'm using R v. 3.1.3 and RStudio
>>> v. 0.98.1103 in LinuxMint 17.1)
>>>
>>> Here are some of the things I've tried unsuccessfully:
>>> install.packages("caret", repos=c("http://rstudio.org/_packages",
>>> "http://cran.rstudio.com"))
>>> install.packages("caret", dependencies=TRUE)
>>> install.packages("caret", repos=c("http://rstudio.org/_packages",
>>> "http://cran.rstudio.com"), dependencies=TRUE)
>>> install.packages("caret", dependencies = c("Depends", "Suggests"))
>>> install.packages("caret", repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/")
>>>
>>> I've changed my CRAN mirror from UCLA to Revolution Analytics in Dallas,
>>> and tried the above installs again, unsuccessfully.
>>>
>>> I've succeeded in individually installing a number of packages on which
>>> "caret" appears to be dependent.  Specifically, I've been able to
>>> install  "nloptr", "minqa", "Rcpp", "reshape2", "stringr", and
>>> "scales".  But I've had no success with trying to do individual installs
>>> of "BradleyTerry2", "car", "lme4", "quantreg", and "RcppEigen".
>>>
>>> Any suggestions will be very gratefully received (and tried out quickly).
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Ron Wyllys
>>>
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