[R] Error installing packages

[Jeff Newmiller]

Different mirror?
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Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

On October 19, 2016 4:54:50 AM PDT, "Kevin E. Thorpe" <kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>Hello.
>
>I am posting this on behalf of one of my students who is getting error 
>messages when installing some packages. I have not seen this before nor
>
>have I been able to replicate it. I'm including the relevant (I think) 
>information. I get the students to install rms with dependencies. As
>you 
>can see, rms does get installed but when the attempt is made to attach 
>it, ggplot2 cannot be loaded. Thus I tried explicitly installing
>ggplot2 
>and you can see then ensuing errors below. I have included the 
>sessionInfo() at the end.
>
>I hope someone can point me at a solution.
>
>
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> > install.packages("rms",dependencies=TRUE)
>Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Leticia/Documents/R/win-library/3.3’
>(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>trying URL 
>'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/rms_4.5-0.zip'
>Content type 'application/zip' length 1074995 bytes (1.0 MB)
>downloaded 1.0 MB
>
>package ‘rms’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
>The downloaded binary packages are in
>     C:\Users\Leticia\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpa0q2o2\downloaded_packages
> > library(rms)
>Loading required package: Hmisc
>Loading required package: lattice
>Loading required package: survival
>Loading required package: Formula
>Loading required package: ggplot2
>Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), 
>versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
>   there is no package called ‘Rcpp’
>Error: package ‘ggplot2’ could not be loaded
> > install.packages("ggplot2",dependencies=TRUE)
>Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Leticia/Documents/R/win-library/3.3’
>(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>also installing the dependency ‘maptools’
>
>trying URL 
>'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/maptools_0.8-39.zip'
>Content type 'application/zip' length 1816384 bytes (1.7 MB)
>downloaded 0 bytes
>
>trying URL 
>'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/ggplot2_2.1.0.zip'
>Content type 'application/zip' length 1996146 bytes (1.9 MB)
>downloaded 4096 bytes
>
>Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", 
>"Type")) :
>   cannot open the connection
>In addition: Warning messages:
>1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   downloaded length 0 != reported length 1816384
>2: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   downloaded length 4096 != reported length 1996146
>3: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip
>file
>4: In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type"))
>:
>   cannot open compressed file 'maptools/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 
>'No such file or directory'
> > library(rms)
>Loading required package: Hmisc
>Loading required package: ggplot2
>Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), 
>versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
>   there is no package called ‘Rcpp’
>Error: package ‘ggplot2’ could not be loaded
> > session.info()
>Error: could not find function "session.info"
> > sessionInfo()
>R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)
>Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 10586)
>
>locale:
>[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252 
>LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252
>[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                    LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
>
>attached base packages:
>[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
>other attached packages:
>[1] Formula_1.2-1   survival_2.39-4 lattice_0.20-33
>
>loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>[1] Matrix_1.2-6  tools_3.3.1   gtable_0.2.0  splines_3.3.1 grid_3.3.1
> >
>
>-- 
>Kevin E. Thorpe
>Head of Biostatistics,  Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC)
>Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital
>Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
>University of Toronto
>email: kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca  Tel: 416.864.5776  Fax: 416.864.3016
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