[R] Issue when trying to install or load packages in RStudio

[Paul Bernal]

Thank you very much dear friend Rui.

Best,
Paul

El El vie, 13 de may. de 2022 a la(s) 11:48 a. m., Rui Barradas <
ruipbarradas using sapo.pt> escribió:

> Hello,
>
> If that was the problem you should run update.packages().
> It can take a lot of time dpending on how many packages you have
> installed but it will avoid you having to update the packages one by one.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> Às 15:57 de 13/05/2022, Paul Bernal escreveu:
> > Dear Jeff and R friends,
> >
> > I fixed the issue. The problem was due to the fact that I had R version
> > 4.1.2 and installed  the newer version R 4.2. Since RStudio automatically
> > points to the latest R version installed, there were a lot of packages
> that
> > were not installed.
> >
> > I just made RStudio point to an older R version and the issue was solved.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Paul
> > El El vie, 13 de may. de 2022 a la(s) 9:35 a. m., Jeff Newmiller <
> > jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us> escribió:
> >
> >> A) You are repeatedly referring to RStudio... if you have a problem with
> >> RStudio, it is off-topic here and most people won't know how to fix it.
> >> RStudio occasionally gets out of sync with R and (the majority of us)
> don't
> >> keep track of that status here.
> >>
> >> Assuming the problem is with R (you confirm this by using R or RGui
> >> directly and seeing the same errors)...
> >>
> >> B) When the R error messages say they cannot find the index, then that
> >> means you either have the wrong CRAN mirror URL (there is a whole list
> of
> >> them you can try) or there is some kind of network storm that will blow
> >> over if you try again later.
> >>
> >> C) Finally, Rtools is not an R package... you will never succeed
> >> installing Rtools using install.packages. Use your web browser to look
> on
> >> CRAN for Rtools42 software and download the corresponding Windows setup
> >> program and run it. You should read and follow the instructions [1]. I
> am
> >> pretty sure you will need to re-start R so it will find Rtools.
> >>
> >> [1] https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/rtools42/rtools.html
> >>
> >> On May 13, 2022 6:38:29 AM PDT, Paul Bernal <paulbernal07 using gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Dear friends,
> >>>
> >>> Hope you are doing great. I have installed R version 4.2.0 and
> >>> RStudio 2022.02.2 Build 485 "Prairie Trillium" Release (8acbd38b,
> >>> 2022-04-19) for Windows.
> >>>
> >>> Last week, I developed a model in RStudio and was able to install and
> load
> >>> many packages, but now RStudio is behaving oddly.
> >>>
> >>> I get the following errors whenever I try installing packages(which was
> >> not
> >>> happening to me last week):
> >>>
> >>> https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
> >>> Warning in install.packages :
> >>>   unable to access index for repository
> >> https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib
> >>> :
> >>>   cannot open URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
> >>> Warning in install.packages :
> >>>   package ‘Rtools’ is not available for this version of R
> >>>
> >>> A version of this package for your version of R might be available
> >>> elsewhere,
> >>> see the ideas at
> >>>
> >>
> https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages
> >>> Warning in install.packages :
> >>>   unable to access index for repository
> >>> https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.2:
> >>>   cannot open URL '
> >> https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.2/PACKAGES
> >>> '
> >>>
> >>> I try to install Rtools but was not able to.
> >>>
> >>> Any clues on what could be happening?
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Paul
> >>>
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> >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
> >>
> >
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