Attempting to install rgeos package fails. Detailed error logs as follows:-
> install.packages("rgeos", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
Installing package(s) into ‘/Users/calvin/R/x86_64-apple-darwin11.2.0-library/2.14’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning: dependency ‘stringr’ is not available
trying URL 'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/src/contrib/rgeos_0.1-15.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 166974 bytes (163 Kb)
opened URL
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downloaded 163 Kb
ERROR: dependency ‘stringr’ is not available for package ‘rgeos’
* removing ‘/Users/calvin/R/x86_64-apple-darwin11.2.0-library/2.14/rgeos’
The downloaded packages are in
‘/private/var/folders/4l/rd4wl50x52n504t2vzqskhhc0000gn/T/RtmppBNwSt/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("rgeos", repos = "http://R-Forge.R-project.org") :
installation of package ‘rgeos’ had non-zero exit status
> install.packages("stringr", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
Installing package(s) into ‘/Users/calvin/R/x86_64-apple-darwin11.2.0-library/2.14’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
package ‘stringr’ is not available (for R version 2.14.0)
Suggestions?
Best Answer
There appears to be some problem with installing the copy of rgeos from repos = "http://R-Forge.R-project.org".
I used the Singapore mirror and the installation worked out fine.