Can't install glmnet in R [closed]

I am trying to install glmnet package (Version:2.0-5) in R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21) on my windows 64-bit pc. But, I get following message.

installed.packages("glmnet") 

 Package LibPath Version Priority Depends Imports LinkingTo Suggests Enhances License License_is_FOSS License_restricts_use OS_type Archs MD5sum NeedsCompilation Built 

What could be wrong?

1 Answer

It hard to tell whether anything is wrong. The code:

installed.packages("glmnet") 

... does not install anything. You should instead try this:

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

The glmnet package has many dependencies. This is what I saw when I just installed it:

also installing the dependencies ‘mime’, ‘iterators’, ‘evaluate’, ‘formatR’, ‘highr’, ‘markdown’, ‘yaml’, ‘foreach’, ‘knitr’, ‘lars’ trying URL ' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 24884 bytes (24 KB) ================================================== downloaded 24 KB trying URL ' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 310135 bytes (302 KB) ================================================== downloaded 302 KB trying URL ' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 45380 bytes (44 KB) ================================================== downloaded 44 KB trying URL ' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 44156 bytes (43 KB) ================================================== downloaded 43 KB trying URL ' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 28351 bytes (27 KB) ================================================== downloaded 27 KB trying URL ' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 170142 bytes (166 KB) ================================================== downloaded 166 KB trying URL ' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 168121 bytes (164 KB) ================================================== downloaded 164 KB trying URL ' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 382270 bytes (373 KB) ================================================== downloaded 373 KB trying URL ' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 940484 bytes (918 KB) ================================================== downloaded 918 KB trying URL ' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 200050 bytes (195 KB) ================================================== downloaded 195 KB trying URL ' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1788514 bytes (1.7 MB) ================================================== downloaded 1.7 MB The downloaded binary packages are in /var/folders/68/vh2f8kzn09j8954r6q9100yh0000gn/T//Rtmp5fI1D2/downloaded_packages 

Then nothing change in the result from your code. (I've never used the installed.packages function and so don't really know whether that is expected behavior.

> installed.packages("glmnet") Package LibPath Version Priority Depends Imports LinkingTo Suggests Enhances License License_is_FOSS License_restricts_use OS_type Archs MD5sum NeedsCompilation Built 

So @bethanyP suggested looking at spelling (of what I'm not sure, perhaps just the function name). I looked at the help page for `installed.packages and now know why the result was uninformative with or without the presence of glmnet and that is that the first argument to installed packages is no a package name but rahter a library path. I don't have a library path by that name and so no packages were found in either case.