[R] Too strange that I cannot install several packages

[Bruce Ratner PhD]

Dear William:
Thank you for your informative reply. 
I simply got lost in the forest, as I have indeed been reading several R books.
As I tell my students, "every bright mind has a dull spot."

Best Regards,
Bruce


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Bruce Ratner PhD
The Significant Statistician™
(516) 791-3544
Statistical Predictive Analytics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
Machine-Learning Data Mining -- www.GenIQ.net



> On Apr 10, 2017, at 3:07 PM, William Michels <wjm1 at caa.columbia.edu> wrote:
> 
> For a base-R installation, you can print out multiple help pages
> (function indices) like so:
> 
>> for(i in 1:length(sessionInfo()$basePkgs)) {
> print(library(help = sessionInfo()$basePkgs[i], character.only = TRUE)) }
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Bill.
> 
> William Michels, Ph.D.
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org> wrote:
>> I did answer this question quite a few weeks ago. You then continued to email me directly off list asking the exact question you posted below and at that time I gave you the answer on how to solve.
>> 
>> Your unwillingness to do even the basic study on R clogs this list unnecessarily.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bruce Ratner PhD [mailto:br at dmstat1.com]
>> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 2:13 PM
>> To: Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org>
>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] Too strange that I cannot install several packages
>> 
>> Dear Harold:
>> If you do not want to answer my questions, then do not reply.
>> Warmest Regards,
>> Bruce
>> 
>> ______________
>> Bruce Ratner PhD
>> The Significant Statistician™
>> (516) 791-3544
>> Statistical Predictive Analytics -- www.DMSTAT1.com Machine-Learning Data Mining -- www.GenIQ.net
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 10, 2017, at 1:11 PM, Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> You really need to stop spamming this list and take time to learn R basics. You sent me emails directly on this and asked me this specific question before.
>>> 
>>> These are not packages, but are functions and you do not work with R this way.
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of
>>> BR_email
>>> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 1:08 PM
>>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>>> Subject: [R] Too strange that I cannot install several packages
>>> 
>>> Hi Rers:
>>> Is there anything I can check for as to why I cannot install several packages, i.e., sample, resample, resample_bootstrap, apply, sapply, ...?
>>> 
>>> The error message I get is:
>>> 
>>>> install.packages("sample") Installing package into
>>> ‘C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/R/win-library/3.3’ (as ‘lib’ is
>>> unspecified) Warning in install.packages :
>>>  package ‘sample’ is not available (for R version 3.3.3)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> Bruce
>>> 
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