Problems installing Ime4 and ggplot2 on R 2.15.2

Question

I am having difficulty installing the lme4 and ggplot packages

I've tried to install them by selecting a CRAN mirror (have tried several) and then selecting the packages, and have also tried the following;

install.packages("lme4",repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org")

and

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

but however I try to call these packages I get the warning message

package ‘lme4’ is not available (for R version 2.15.2)

or

package ‘ggplot2’ is not available (for R version 2.15.2)

the only answers I can find for problems installing these packages suggest upgrading R to the latest version, but I am using 2.15.2 which I believe is the most recent available.

Has anyone else had this problem?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

thanks.

Lian

Answer 1

I was having the exact same problem. Here is what solved it for me:

For convenience I added a default cran mirror in my Rprofile.site file:

local({r <- getOption("repos")
   r["CRAN"] <- "http://cran.stat.sfu.ca/"
   options(repos=r)})

Then installing packages in this order works:

install.packages("Matrix")
install.packages("nlme")
install.packages("minqa")
install.packages("RcppEigen")
install.packages("lme4",repos="http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos")
install.packages("ggplot2", dependencies=TRUE)

Hope it works for you as well.