[R] Help needed with successfully downloading and opening Agricolae package

[Jeff Newmiller]

I am puzzled why the original install.packages call did not also download the sp package, since the default argument dependencies = NA should have triggered installation of imports including spDep, which should in turn have installed the dependencies including the sp package. Anyone have a theory? 
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On May 6, 2016 12:47:44 PM PDT, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>This is a plain-text email list, so your red doesn't show up, but
>since the error message said that the installer couldn't find the sp
>package, I'd start by installing that.
>
>Sarah
>
>On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Phillips,Douglas A <dal64372 at ufl.edu>
>wrote:
>> Hi, I just downloaded the Agricolae package and tried to access it
>using the commands listed below (and received the error messages in
>red).  Any suggestions on resolving these errors?
>>
>> Thanks for your assistance.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>
>>
>>> install.packages("agricolae")
>>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time    
>Time  Current
>>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent   
>Left  Speed
>>   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:--
>--:--:--     0  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--
>--:--:-- --:--:--     0100  896k  100  896k    0     0   900k      0
>--:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  900k
>>
>> The downloaded binary packages are in
>>
>/var/folders/qn/8tc0v1m971d361gv0mwsmxj80000gn/T//RtmpYMZ97k/downloaded_packages
>>>
>>>
>>> library(agricolae)
>> Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck =
>vI[[i]]) :
>>   there is no package called ‘sp’
>> Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘agricolae’
>>
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