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Help required for Rcmdr

7 messages · Sekhar Venkatesan, vito muggeo, Richard M. Heiberger +1 more

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Sekhar Venkatesan
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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>
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      John Fox
    

    

      
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Dear Sekhar,

The Rcmdr package, including a Windows binary, *is* available for version 3.2.3 (the current version) of R, as you can verify from the CRAN webpage for the package, at <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcmdr/index.html>. My guess is that the CRAN mirror you're using has a problem, and you might try selecting a different mirror.

I hope that this help,
 John

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John Fox, Professor
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      vito muggeo
    

    

      
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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:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Dear Vito,

I've never experienced this problem myself in a general way, and I'm sure that Windows users of R call install.packages() all the time to install packages from CRAN mirrors. 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.

Best,
 John

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John Fox, Professor
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      vito muggeo
    

    

      
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dear John,
Thanks for your prompt reply

Il 09/02/2016 16.23, Fox, John ha scritto:

            

      
      
      
    

        
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

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Richard M. Heiberger
    

    

      
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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:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      John Fox
    

    

      
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Hi Rich,

            

      
      
      
    

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

Best,
 John