Dependency issue while installing caret package in R

user123 picture user123 · Dec 15, 2014 · Viewed 35.4k times · Source

I am trying to install R package caret

Which gives me ERROR: dependencies ‘ggplot2’, ‘reshape2’, ‘BradleyTerry2’ are not available for package ‘caret’

I tried to install each of this individually, which again shows installation going on, ending with message that installation of package ‘X’ had non-zero exit status

1: In install.packages("caret") :
  installation of package ‘minqa’ had non-zero exit status
2: In install.packages("caret") :
  installation of package ‘RcppEigen’ had non-zero exit status
3: In install.packages("caret") :
  installation of package ‘scales’ had non-zero exit status
4: In install.packages("caret") :
  installation of package ‘reshape2’ had non-zero exit status
5: In install.packages("caret") :
  installation of package ‘lme4’ had non-zero exit status
6: In install.packages("caret") :
  installation of package ‘ggplot2’ had non-zero exit status
7: In install.packages("caret") :
  installation of package ‘BradleyTerry2’ had non-zero exit status
8: In install.packages("caret") :
  installation of package ‘caret’ had non-zero exit status

Ask recursively to install some package. What is the issue?

I had older version, where I was getting similar error. I removed and installed latest. Currently version is R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31) -- "Pumpkin Helmet", but still getting similar error message

UPDATE

STarted with : install.packages('caret', repos='http://cran.rstudio.com/') which displays message:

Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘minqa’, ‘RcppEigen’, ‘scales’, ‘lme4’, ‘ggplot2’, ‘reshape2’, ‘BradleyTerry2’

and process ends with :

installing to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/reshape2/libs
** R
** data
*** moving datasets to lazyload DB
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Error : package ‘stringr’ was built before R 3.0.0: please re-install it
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘reshape2’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/reshape2’
ERROR: dependencies ‘minqa’, ‘RcppEigen’ are not available for package ‘lme4’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/lme4’
ERROR: dependencies ‘reshape2’, ‘scales’ are not available for package ‘ggplot2’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ggplot2’
ERROR: dependency ‘lme4’ is not available for package ‘BradleyTerry2’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/BradleyTerry2’
ERROR: dependencies ‘ggplot2’, ‘reshape2’, ‘BradleyTerry2’ are not available for package ‘caret’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/caret’

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/RtmpcLo8Rw/downloaded_packages’
Warning messages:
1: In install.packages("caret", repos = "http://cran.rstudio.com/") :
  installation of package ‘minqa’ had non-zero exit status
2: In install.packages("caret", repos = "http://cran.rstudio.com/") :
  installation of package ‘RcppEigen’ had non-zero exit status
3: In install.packages("caret", repos = "http://cran.rstudio.com/") :
  installation of package ‘scales’ had non-zero exit status
4: In install.packages("caret", repos = "http://cran.rstudio.com/") :
  installation of package ‘reshape2’ had non-zero exit status
5: In install.packages("caret", repos = "http://cran.rstudio.com/") :
  installation of package ‘lme4’ had non-zero exit status
6: In install.packages("caret", repos = "http://cran.rstudio.com/") :
  installation of package ‘ggplot2’ had non-zero exit status
7: In install.packages("caret", repos = "http://cran.rstudio.com/") :
  installation of package ‘BradleyTerry2’ had non-zero exit status
8: In install.packages("caret", repos = "http://cran.rstudio.com/") :
  installation of package ‘caret’ had non-zero exit status

Answer

Guillermo Santamaría picture Guillermo Santamaría · Jan 7, 2016

As the caret Documentation suggests execute install.packages("caret", dependencies = c("Depends", "Suggests")) to ensure that all the needed packages are installed and resolve all the dependencies