I am doing data analysis on multiple workstations (mostly Linux) and I would like to maintain in all platforms the same installed packages. I am using the following code to sync packages combined w...

Go to the link: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/epicalc/index.html You will obtain the message: Package ‘epicalc’ was removed from the CRAN repository. Formerly available version...

I have just made a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 installation and installed R following the instructions at this link and this other one, selecting the Berkeley mirror as I always do. On emacs (+ess), I am u...

Hopefully this has a straightforward answer, but I haven't been able to find it as yet. I'm writing an R package, and when installed on Windows I want it to execute a script that searches for a s...

To celebrate the 100,000th question in the r tag, I'd like to create a list of the names of all package authors on CRAN. Initially, I thought I could do this using available.packages() but sadly t...

I was trying to install the 'pmml' package in R using the install.packages('') option as well as from source. But keep getting errors both ways. Trying from R install.packages('pmml',dependencies...

I am unable to install packages from CRAN after upgrading R from 3.1.3 to 3.2.1. The error message is that the shared object internet.so cannot be loaded. install.packages("randomForest") Installi...

As of R 3.1.0 I get the following R check: * checking package dependencies ... NOTE No repository set, so cyclic dependency check skipped I tried this advice: https://twitter.com/phylorich/stat...

Some functions in my package run much faster using C++11 containers, but CRAN doesn't accept my package using both $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS) and $(CXX1XSTD) because it doesn't compile on Solaris (or...

I have a package on CRAN called UNF, which creates a hash of a data.frame (for use in data citation). I have some tests in the package related to the formatting of datetimes (I'm using testthat). T...

I was loading AIMS package and got a warning: package ‘AIMS’ was built under R version 3.2.0 I thought R-3.1.2 ("Pumpkin Helmet") was the latest release so I checked on CRAN and couldn't see any...

I am trying to use Google Trends data and have come across a few packages that are not on CRAN (GTrends, RGoogleTrends). I like what I have seen from the RGoogleTrends package at this blog, and wa...

I am trying to unload a package with all of its dependencies. The problem that I am running into is the order in which to unload dependencies. Because dependencies are recursive, they can only be u...

I am using 32-bit R 3.1.2 on Windows 7. I recently conducted an R CMD check --as-cran on a recently-developed package and received only the 'New submission' note. Research here and on R-devel sugg...

I have read NOTE in R CRAN Check: No repository set, so cyclic dependency check skipped and to the best of my knowledge followed the suggestions. Specifically I have an .Rprofile file in ~/ w...

I'm not new to R but I'm new to finding errors in CRAN packages which I wish to correct. In my case, I like to upload packages under development on github; then if errors are found people can gener...

I have a bunch of tests that I don't want them running during CRAN checks or Travis CI builds. They are either long-running, or they could cause transaction/concurrency conflicts writing to a netwo...

I would like to submit a package (DLMtool) to the CRAN repository. When I check the package with R CMD check --as-cran I receive only 1 note regarding the new submission. However when I submit th...

When loading the RTextTools package from CRAN, I get the following warnings: Warning messages: 1: replacing previous import ‘head’ when loading ‘utils’ 2: replacing previous import ‘tail’ when...

I would like to use rJava in combination with mcparallel but obviously the JVM cannot be forked. Therefore a separate JVM instance needs to be initiated for each child process, e.g: library(rJava)...

I like dplyr for data manipulation, but I don't understand how to use it for programming. For example, to rescale some variables, we could do: mutate(cars, speed.scaled = scale(speed), dist.scaled...

I am experiencing a hard to debug problem with makePSOCKcluster from the parallel package on R x64 on Windows. It does not happen on R i386 on Windows, nor on any OSX or Linux. Unfortunately it doe...

I have built an rmarkdown tutorial for an R package, and would like to include the compiled file when the package is built. Though the file compiles happily (including when I use R CMD Sweave to do...

Is there any package or other software to plot neural network models from the nnet package cran. I trained a neural network model (3 inputs and 1 output) using nnet and Rattle: crs$nnet <- nne...

I am building a package in R 3.1.0 on Windows 7 32-bit (and also on a different machine running Windows 8 64bit) and I am using knitr to write vignettes using Markdown. I am hoping to publish this ...