[R] Installing multiple packages fails

[jim holtman]

The first parameter needs to be a character vector:

 install.packages(c("Blossom","INLA","RTisean","RcppProgress","STRbook",
"askpass","classInt","ellipsis","generics","lpSolve","
odesolve","ranger","sf",
"sys","units") )

Jim Holtman
*Data Munger Guru*


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On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 9:16 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard using appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> Running 3.6.1 here and migrating from my old 32-bit server/workstation to a
> new 64-bit server/workstation (both running fully patched Slackware-14.2).
>
> On the old host .libPaths() returns "/usr/lib/R/library"; on the new host
> it
> returned nothing so I ran .libPaths("/usr/lib64/R/library") to create the
> system-wide library.
>
> First question is how I was able to print a dataframe list of installed
> libraries on the new host if the path was not defined?
>
> Second question is why I get an error on the new host after defining the
> library and running the install.packages() function:
>
> > install.packages("Blossom","INLA","RTisean","RcppProgress","STRbook",
>
> "askpass","classInt","ellipsis","generics","lpSolve","odesolve","ranger","sf",
> "sys","units")
>
> Warning in install.packages("Blossom", "INLA", "RTisean", "RcppProgress", :
>    'lib = "INLA"' is not writable
>
> What have I missed or done incorrectly?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
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