[R] problems with packages installation

[Richard M. Heiberger]

You should install Rtools first.

Then you will need to use
install.packages(c(A"","B","etc"), type="source", dependencies=TRUE)

Rich

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:40 AM, PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at precheza.cz> wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I just switched to new version
>
>> version
>                _
> platform       i386-w64-mingw32
> arch           i386
> os             mingw32
> system         i386, mingw32
> status         Under development (unstable)
> major          3
> minor          2.0
> year           2015
> month          02
> day            11
> svn rev        67792
> language       R
> version.string R Under development (unstable) (2015-02-11 r67792)
> nickname       Unsuffered Consequences
>
> and started to have problems with installing packages through utils
>
>> setInternet2(TRUE)
>> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> also installing the dependencies ‘colorspace’, ‘Rcpp’, ‘stringr’, ‘RColorBrewer’, ‘dichromat’, ‘munsell’, ‘labeling’, ‘plyr’, ‘digest’, ‘gtable’, ‘reshape2’, ‘scales’, ‘proto’
>
> trying URL 'http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/colorspace_1.2-4.zip'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   cannot open URL 'http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/colorspace_1.2-4.zip'
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available,  :
>   download of package ‘colorspace’ failed
> ....
>
> Before I start to disturb our IT I just want to know what could be the issue. AFAIK I did not change anything on my PC. In previous R-devel version I used this package installation worked (and still works)
>
>> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> trying URL 'http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/mice_2.22.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 1148843 bytes (1.1 Mb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 1.1 Mb
>
> package ‘mice’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
> The downloaded binary packages are in
>         C:\Documents and Settings\PikalP\Local Settings\Temp\RtmpgZuQB3\downloaded_packages
>
>> version
>                _
> platform       i386-w64-mingw32
> arch           i386
> os             mingw32
> system         i386, mingw32
> status         Under development (unstable)
> major          3
> minor          2.0
> year           2014
> month          07
> day            16
> svn rev        66175
> language       R
> version.string R Under development (unstable) (2014-07-16 r66175)
> nickname       Unsuffered Consequences
>
> can you suggest what changed between those 2 R versions what prevents me in convenient installation of packages.
>
> Petr
>
> BTW. I can install packages manually but when there are many dependencies it can be rather tricky.
>
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