[R] Help required for Rcmdr

[Fox, John]

Hi Rich,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard M. Heiberger [mailto:rmh at temple.edu]
> Sent: February 9, 2016 4:57 PM
> To: Vito M. R. Muggeo <vito.muggeo at unipa.it>
> Cc: Fox, John <jfox at mcmaster.ca>; Sekhar Venkatesan
> <venkatesansekhar at gmail.com>; Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>; R-help at r-project.org; R-windows at r-
> project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Help required for Rcmdr
> 
> Several of my students have had this type of difficulty with Rstudio.
> 

Good to know, but the original poster tried both with the R Windows SDI and MDI.

Best,
 John

> 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
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> >>>
> >>> ______________________________________________
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> >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> ==============================================
> >> 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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> >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >>
> >
> > --
> > ==============================================
> > 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
> >
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> > PLEASE do read the posting guide
> > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.