Rcmdr not available

[rcommanderpanic]

Hi, I'm new to rstudio, and am hoping to use R commander as an easier GUI. When I try to install the package using install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) I get the message:

Warning in install.packages :
package ‘Rcmdr’ is not available (for R version 3.4.4)

I can't find any reference to this problem in the forums, can anyone suggest a solution?
Thank you!

I should add that I am using Ubuntu 17.10, R Studio Version 1.1.463

[cderv]

@rcommanderpanic

package ‘Rcmdr’ is not available (for R version 3.4.4)

When you go on CRAN page for Rcmdr you'll see that it depends on R > 3.5.0.

This is why, the package is not available to you - you should not find it in the table available.packages() that filters by default according to the R version. See ?available.packages about built in filter.

As you are on R version 3.4.4, you'll need to install a former version. Previous one, 2.5.0 should be fine according to the DESCRIPTION file from this version

cran/Rcmdr/blob/2.5-0/DESCRIPTION#L30

Try something like

remotes::install_version("Rcmdr", "2.5.0")

and see how it goes.

[rcommanderpanic]

That's great, thank you for your help.

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[rcommanderpanic]

Unfortunately this isn't working for me, I can install R Commander version 2.5.0 using that command, but it then attempts to install package 'rgl' as a dependency. This installation fails, with the message:

configure: error: missing required header GL/glu.h
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgl’

Any suggestions...? Thank you for your help!

[cderv]

So the error is different so the solution is working but you now encounter another issue, which is more typical

@rcommanderpanic

configure: error: missing required header GL/glu.h
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgl’

You are missing some system requirement for the you want to install. Rcmdr seems to suggest rgl that needs OpenGL and friends. See System requirements on the CRAN page

rgl: 3D Visualization Using OpenGL

SystemRequirements: OpenGL, GLU Library, XQuartz (on OSX), zlib (optional), libpng (>=1.2.9, optional), FreeType (optional), pandoc (>=1.14, needed for vignettes)

You need to make those available on your system.

About dependencies, normally, remotes::install_version("Rcmdr", "2.5.0"), as I mentionned in my solution, default to not installing suggestes . Maybe you ran remotes::install_version("Rcmdr", "2.5.0", dependencies = NA, dependencies = TRUE) that will also install Suggests (or there is a change in default value)

As rgl is in suggest, you may be able to not install Rcmdr without it using the correct argument for dependencies