FactoMineR does not install on linux : dependency ‘car’ is not available

[Fred]

Hi,

I tried to install FactoMineR on linux (kubuntu 14.10 and 15.04 as well) and I failed systematically because the 'car' dependency could not be installed. My R version is 3.1.1. 

Thank you for your help !

install.packages("FactoMineR")
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ERROR: dependency ‘car’ is not available for package ‘FactoMineR’




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

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essai de l'URL 'http://mirrors.softliste.de/cran/src/contrib/rmarkdown_0.7.tar.gz'
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essai de l'URL 'http://mirrors.softliste.de/cran/src/contrib/Rcmdr_2.2-0.tar.gz'
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ERROR: dependency ‘car’ is not available for package ‘RcmdrMisc’


Avis : dependency ‘car’ is not available

[Anton Perdoncin]

Hi Fred,

Maybe you should upgrade to R 3.1.2 ? Could you please provide us with the result of the command sessionInfo() ?

I am running FactoMineR on Linux too (xubuntu / ubuntu trusty 14.04.2 LTS), and it works perfectly well. See below the result of sessionInfo() :


Best,

Anton

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[Emma Hernandez-Sanabria]

Hi Fred,

I bumped into the same issue just after I installed the new version of R and R studio. In the end I had to install all the dependencies separately but after that FactoMineR works just fine. 

Good luck!

Emma

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[Fred]

Thank you Anton !

I don't know a "secure" way to upgrade R and I am afraid to break everything :-/

this is my session info :

> sessionInfo()

R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)

Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:

 [1] LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              

 [3] LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=fr_FR.UTF-8    

 [5] LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8   

 [7] LC_PAPER=fr_FR.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 

 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            

[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:

[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):

[1] tcltk_3.1.1 tools_3.1.1

[Fred]

Thank You Emma !

I tried to install the dependencies separately, but the problem is that I never succeeded to install the package 'car'  which is required for many other dependencies...

Le jeudi 20 août 2015 14:51:55 UTC+2, Emma Hernandez-Sanabria a écrit :

Hi Fred,

I bumped into the same issue just after I installed the new version of R and R studio. In the end I had to install all the dependencies separately but after that FactoMineR works just fine. 

Good luck!

Emma

[Anton Perdoncin]

Several possibilities:

1/ check out here : https://github.com/swirldev/swirl/issues/253 ; it might solve your problem (the download link might be broken).

2/ if 1/ does not work, you will have to update R (and maybe RStudio?). Don't worry, nothing will be broken or lost, provided that you saveguard all your editors.
First solution: updating all your Ubuntu Packages. Can take a few minutes, but it should be done from time to time. On a terminal : sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Second solution: updating only R. On a terminal : sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade r
Or, if you are not comfortable with terminal instructions, you can use the Ubuntu Software Updater (through the Ubuntu Dash).

Once this is done you will have to reinstall he lastest versions of your R packages.

Hope it helps !

[Fred]

Thank you again Anton !

Since my system is up to date, I will try manual install.

[Fred]

I finally succeeded after R update to version 3.2.1 (2015-06-18) described here :

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu/

and then install.packages()

Thanks for your help !