Everytime I give the command for any package, in this case for ggplot2, I get this after a few minutes. I am missing something, but can’t figure out what. Thanks in advance!
ERROR: dependency ‘plyr’ is not available for package ‘reshape2’ * removing ‘/home/cj/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.14/reshape2’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘reshape2’ had non-zero exit status ERROR: dependency ‘plyr’ is not available for package ‘scales’ * removing ‘/home/cj/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.14/scales’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘scales’ had non-zero exit status ERROR: dependencies ‘plyr’, ‘reshape2’, ‘scales’ are not available for package ‘ggplot2’ * removing ‘/home/cj/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.14/ggplot2’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘ggplot2’ had non-zero exit status The downloaded packages are in ‘/tmp/RtmpAXVGC6/downloaded_packages’
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Answer
You are on R 2.14. Please please PLEASE upgrade to something from the last few years — preferably from the current year such as R 3.2.0, 3.2.1 or the recently-release 3.2.2.
Simply put, you are being unreasonable in trying to expect that current and well-maintained archived for users of the current versions should also work with versions released that many years ago.