[R] Too strange that I cannot install several packages

William Michels wjm1 at caa.columbia.edu
Mon Apr 10 21:07:18 CEST 2017


For a base-R installation, you can print out multiple help pages
(function indices) like so:

> for(i in 1:length(sessionInfo()$basePkgs)) {
print(library(help = sessionInfo()$basePkgs[i], character.only = TRUE)) }

HTH,

Bill.

William Michels, Ph.D.



On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org> wrote:
> I did answer this question quite a few weeks ago. You then continued to email me directly off list asking the exact question you posted below and at that time I gave you the answer on how to solve.
>
> Your unwillingness to do even the basic study on R clogs this list unnecessarily.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Ratner PhD [mailto:br at dmstat1.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 2:13 PM
> To: Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org>
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Too strange that I cannot install several packages
>
> Dear Harold:
> If you do not want to answer my questions, then do not reply.
> Warmest Regards,
> Bruce
>
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>
>> On Apr 10, 2017, at 1:11 PM, Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org> wrote:
>>
>> You really need to stop spamming this list and take time to learn R basics. You sent me emails directly on this and asked me this specific question before.
>>
>> These are not packages, but are functions and you do not work with R this way.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of
>> BR_email
>> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 1:08 PM
>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: [R] Too strange that I cannot install several packages
>>
>> 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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