[R] Issues when Trying to Install Packages in R

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11/06/2018 5:15 PM, Paul Bernal wrote:
> Dear friends,
> 
> I recently installed the following R version:
> 
> R version 3.5.0 (2018-04-23) -- "Joy in Playing"
> Copyright (C) 2018 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> 
> However, when  trying to install package lubridate (it also happened when I
> tried to install the forecast package), the following error message popped
> up:
> 
> Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘lubridate’ in loadNamespace(i,
> c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]):
>   there is no package called ‘stringi’
> 
> Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
> 

You need to install the stringi package first.  Normally that is done 
automatically, but sometimes suitable versions are not available, and it 
needs to be done manually.

Duncan Murdoch