[R] Installing Packages

[Wang Jiefei]

Hi,

This means that the package you were trying to install does not have a
compiled version stored on the server. Sometimes you would not see the
question because the server has compiled the package for you, but sometimes
it doesn't.

Cheers,
Jiefei



On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:46 AM Jeff Reichman <reichmanj using sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> R-Help
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> Recently I've started receiving the following message when updating
> packages
> - "Do you want to install from sources the packages which need
> compilation."
> I generally click "Yes," but what is this asking me. That is it appears to
> be re-compiling certain packages? Why?
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> RStudio version: 1.2.5033
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> R version: 3.6.3
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> Sincerely
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> Jeff Reichman
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