[R] Help required for Rcmdr

Tue Feb 9 16:57:12 CET 2016

Several of my students have had this type of difficulty with Rstudio.

Rstudio masks install.packages with a similarly named function in an
environment that does not appear in
either conflicts(details=TRUE) or in search().

The workaround is an explicit call to utils

utils::install.packages("package.name")

Rich

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Vito M. R. Muggeo <vito.muggeo at unipa.it> wrote:
> dear John,
> Thanks for your prompt reply
>
> Il 09/02/2016 16.23, Fox, John ha scritto:
>>
>> Dear Vito,
>>
>> I've never experienced this problem myself in a general way,
>
> Me too. I have always installed R packages straightforwardly..
>
> and I'm sure that Windows users of R call install.packages() all the time to
> install packages from CRAN mirrors.
> Of course..
>
> So the question to ask, I think, is what's preventing install.packages()
> from working in your case -- possibly an Internet connectivity problem
> due to a firewall, proxy server, use of https, etc.
> I'm sure that others more knowledgeable about these issues than I am will
> be able to make more specific suggestions for fixing the problem.
>
> However I have just checked that it works with *http* servers (but not for
> any other *https*..)
>
> Thanks for your support,
> best,
> vito
>
>
>>
>> Best,
>>   John
>>
>> -----------------------------
>> John Fox, Professor
>> McMaster University
>> Hamilton, Ontario
>> Canada L8S 4M4
>> web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: R-help [r-help-bounces at r-project.org] on behalf of Vito M. R. Muggeo
>> [vito.muggeo at unipa.it]
>> Sent: February 9, 2016 10:15 AM
>> To: Sekhar Venkatesan; Duncan Murdoch; R-help at r-project.org
>> Cc: R-windows at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] Help required for Rcmdr
>>
>> dear all,
>> I don't know if that problem is related to the Rcmdr package itself..
>> (Sekhar try to install any other packages..)
>>
>> I am experiencing the same problem, in that when typing
>>
>>   > install.packages("_ANY_PACKAGE_")
>>
>> I get the message
>> Warning message:
>> package ‘_ANY_PACKAGE_’ is not available (for R version 3.2.3)
>>
>> But I can download the .zip file and unzip it..
>>
>> I tried different CRAN mirrors...
>>
>> best,
>> vito
>>
>>
>> Il 09/02/2016 12.44, Sekhar Venkatesan ha scritto:
>>>
>>> Dear Mr. Murdoch,
>>> I am extremely sorry to have sent the mail to you instead of R-help.
>>> Thanks
>>> for directing me.
>>> I have downloaded R 3.2.3 version. After that i asked for
>>> install.packages("Rcmdr") . It says that Rcmdr is not available with
>>> version 3.2.3. On looking at the pdf file for getting started with R, i
>>> found that i should download with SDI Graphical interface which I did
>>> once
>>> again but still i could not get the Rcmdr console.
>>> I attended a workshop where the faculty brought out the R console as well
>>> as the R-commander console where i could import files and also do all the
>>> statistics easily. I am not getting the R-commander console.
>>> Shall be grateful if i could get help on getting the R-commander console
>>> with the user friendly way of doing the statistical operations.
>>> Thanks and regards,
>>> Once again apologize to Dr. Duncan Murdoch for disturbing him.
>>> Sekhar
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 08/02/2016 8:56 AM, Sekhar Venkatesan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear Sirs,
>>>>> I have downloaded R 3.2.3 version from the CRAN site. I have tried to
>>>>> download with both MDI and SDI user interface. But Rcmdr is not opening
>>>>> in
>>>>> as a console  along with R console. Help is required to open Rcmdr. I
>>>>> have
>>>>> tried install.packages("Rcmdr"), library(Rcmdr) etc but to no avail.
>>>>> thanks
>>>>> Sekhar
>>>>> Delhi
>>>>> India
>>>>>
>>>>> This is the wrong email address for help.  Please write to R-help, and
>>>>
>>>> describe what happens when you try the commands that are failing.
>>>>
>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>> --
>> ==============================================
>> Vito M.R. Muggeo
>> Dip.to Sc Statist e Matem `Vianelli'
>> Università di Palermo
>> viale delle Scienze, edificio 13
>> 90128 Palermo - ITALY
>> tel: 091 23895240
>> fax: 091 485726
>> http://dssm.unipa.it/vmuggeo
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>>
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>
> --
> ==============================================
> Vito M.R. Muggeo
> Dip.to Sc Statist e Matem `Vianelli'
> Università di Palermo
> viale delle Scienze, edificio 13
> 90128 Palermo - ITALY
> tel: 091 23895240
> fax: 091 485726
> http://dssm.unipa.it/vmuggeo
> Associate Editor, Statistical Modelling
>
> ______________________________________________
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