Problems installing data.table for R

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Ethan picture Ethan · Sep 22, 2015 · Viewed 21.9k times · Source

I'm trying to install data.table library for R, but I can't get it to work.I've tried using both CRAN and Bioconductor but I keep getting an error that the package is not available for R 3.2.2:

> biocLite('data.table')
 BioC_mirror: http://bioconductor.org
 Using Bioconductor version 3.1 (BiocInstaller 1.18.4), R version 3.2.2.
Installing package(s) ‘data.table’
Warning: unable to access index for repository  
  https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib
Warning: unable to access index for repository   
https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib
Warning message:
package ‘datatable’ is not available (for R version 3.2.2) 
> install.packages("data.table")
Warning: unable to access index for repository     
https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib
Warning message:
package ‘data.table’ is not available (for R version 3.2.2)

I really have no clue what to do...very new to R.

Answer

Stats_Lover picture Stats_Lover · Aug 4, 2016

I faced a similar issue trying to install data.table using RStudio (V 0.99.903) and R (latest version 3.3.1) on windows 8. I issued the command install.packages('data.table') but it failed. What worked for me was running the install.packages with R directly. It got installed properly.

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