[R] Help installing the finalfit package

[Bill Poling]

Good morning David, thank you for your reply.

However, I am not sure what you mean regarding the windows error? Where or what is the windows error? And how would I remedy this issue please?

Thanks

WHP

From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsemius using comcast.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 12:48 AM
To: Bill Poling <Bill.Poling using zelis.com>
Cc: r-help (r-help using r-project.org) <r-help using r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] Help installing the finalfit package


> On Jun 12, 2018, at 5:00 AM, Bill Poling <Bill.Poling using zelis.com<mailto:Bill.Poling using zelis.com>> wrote:
>
> Good morning. Over the weekend I worked through this tutorial on bloggers.com<http://bloggers.com> at home where I am on 3.5.5:
>
> #Elegant regression results tables and plots in R: the finalfit package
>
> https://www.r-bloggers.com/elegant-regression-results-tables-and-plots-in-r-the-finalfit-package/<https://www.r-bloggers.com/elegant-regression-results-tables-and-plots-in-r-the-finalfit-package/>
>
> Here at my office I am on "R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15)" and wish to use some of what I learned.
>
> The tutorial ran splendidly at home but here at office, not so much, big smile.
>
>> devtools::install_github("ewenharrison/finalfit")
> Downloading GitHub repo ewenharrison/finalfit using master
> from URL https://api.github.com/repos/ewenharrison/finalfit/zipball/master<https://api.github.com/repos/ewenharrison/finalfit/zipball/master>
> Installing finalfit
> Installing 1 package: mice
> trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/mice_3.0.0.zip<https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/mice_3.0.0.zip>'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 1490726 bytes (1.4 MB)
> downloaded 1.4 MB
>
> package 'mice' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package 'mice'

Generally the first task is to address the first error, which in this case appears to be a windows permission issue.

--
David


>
> The downloaded binary packages are in
> C:\Users\bpoling\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpWYkyVd\downloaded_packages
> "C:/Users/bpoling/DOCUME~1/R/R-34~1.4/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL \
> "C:/Users/bpoling/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpWYkyVd/devtools1b0436122944/ewenharrison-finalfit-9438bc2" --library="C:/Users/bpoling/Documents/R/R-3.4.4/library" --install-tests
>
> ERROR: dependency 'mice' is not available for package 'finalfit'
> * removing 'C:/Users/bpoling/Documents/R/R-3.4.4/library/finalfit'
> In R CMD INSTALL
> Installation failed: Command failed (1)
>
> I believe I had a similar problem last week and was advised to install the package library(Matrix) which was evidently necessary for sessionInfo() and for lazy load DB -- *source* package 'psycho' etc... which I now load at the beginning of every session.
>
> So my hunch is that maybe I need 3.5.5 for all this to work?
>
> Also I have this error with the mice package:
>
>
>> install.packages("mice")
>
> trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/mice_3.0.0.zip<https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/mice_3.0.0.zip>'
>
> Content type 'application/zip' length 1490726 bytes (1.4 MB)
>
> downloaded 1.4 MB
>
>
>
> package 'mice' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
> Warning in install.packages :
>
> cannot remove prior installation of package 'mice'
>
>
>
> The downloaded binary packages are in
>
> C:\Users\bpoling\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpWYkyVd\downloaded_packages
>
>> library(mice)
>
> Error in library(mice) : there is no package called 'mice'
>
>
> I would appreciate any suggestion please.
>
> Thank you
>
> WHP
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