Installing ggplot “package ‘ggplot’ is not available” and “subscript out of bounds” errors

Question

$ R
R version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25)
Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)

> install.packages("ggplot")
Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
  package ‘ggplot’ is not available

> install.packages("ggplot", dep="T")
Error in apply(available[p1, dependencies, drop = FALSE], 1L, function(x) paste(x[!is.na(x)],  : 
  subscript out of bounds
In addition: Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
  package ‘ggplot’ is not available

> install.packages("ggplot", dep="T", type="source")
Error in apply(available[p1, dependencies, drop = FALSE], 1L, function(x) paste(x[!is.na(x)],  : 
  subscript out of bounds
In addition: Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
  package ‘ggplot’ is not available

How can I install ggplot?

Answer 1

You have the name of the package wrong - it is now ggplot2 following a major rewrite by Hadley some years ago. I presume the old ggplot package has been removed from CRAN.

install.packages("ggplot2", dependencies = TRUE)

This is what I get:

R> install.packages("ggplot2", dependencies = TRUE)
Installing package(s) into ‘/home/gavin/R/libs’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/src/contrib/ggplot2_0.8.9.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2074749 bytes (2.0 Mb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 2.0 Mb

* installing *source* package ‘ggplot2’ ...
** R
** data
**  moving datasets to lazyload DB
** inst
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices ...
** testing if installed package can be loaded

* DONE (ggplot2)

The downloaded packages are in
    ‘/tmp/RtmpPcn8bl/downloaded_packages’

Answer 2

As an update if anyone runs into issues running ggplot or GGally, I had this error:

"Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘ggplot2’ in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]): there is no package called ‘colorspace’

Error: package ‘ggplot2’ could not be loaded"

Once I installed colorspace, ggplot2 worked fine. I'm guessing that colorspace is in the call, but not in the dependencies listed.