[R] Too strange that I cannot install several packages

[BR_email]

Thanks, Jacob.
Bruce

  

Simmering, Jacob E wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> `sample` doesn’t appear to be an R package. `resample` installed for me. `apply` and `sapply` aren’t packages either.
>
> `sample`, `apply` and `sapply` are all functions, however.
>
>
>
>> On Apr 10, 2017, at 12:08 PM, BR_email <br at dmstat1.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rers:
>> Is there anything I can check for as to why I cannot install several packages, i.e., sample, resample, resample_bootstrap, apply, sapply, ...?
>>
>> The error message I get is:
>>
>>> install.packages("sample") Installing package into
>> ‘C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/R/win-library/3.3’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) Warning in install.packages :
>>   package ‘sample’ is not available (for R version 3.3.3)
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Bruce
>>
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