query for Rstudio command

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[viswanathrana29]

Hi all, i have some problem on some commands install.packages("ggplot2") Installing package into ‘/home/vn/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) Warning in install.packages : package ‘ggplot2’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2)

install.packages("reshape") Installing package into ‘/home/vn/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) Warning in install.packages : dependency ‘plyr’ is not available --2016-06-03 14:36:18-- https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/reshape_0.8.5.tar.gz Resolving cran.rstudio.com cran.rstudio.com)... 54.240.168.41 Connecting to cran.rstudio.com cran.rstudio.com)|54.240.168.41|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 42350 (41K) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: ‘/tmp/Rtmp1fKcbI/downloaded_packages/reshape_0.8.5.tar.gz’

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2016-06-03 14:36:37 (53.7 KB/s) - ‘/tmp/Rtmp1fKcbI/downloaded_packages/reshape_0.8.5.tar.gz’ saved [42350/42350]

ERROR: dependency ‘plyr’ is not available for package ‘reshape’ * removing ‘/home/vn/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/reshape’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘reshape’ had non-zero exit status so please help me to solvethis problem

[Devon Ryan]

Perhaps upgrading your version of R will solve this. If not, you could try posting this on the support.bioconductor.org site, which is more relevant than biostars.

[Jean-Karim Heriche]

Try installing the plyr package first since it's what it is complaining about.

Answer 1

[Shab86]

Stackoverflow is also a good place to search for such software related issues. Here's a problem similar to yours: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30636670/ggplot2-fails-to-install-on-r-3-0-2 Hope this helps!