Error in installing packages from RStudio

Question

I have been trying to install the package "doby" from RStudio (ver 0.98.501 ) on ubuntu 13.04 but it keeps throwing the following warning and the package does not get installed.

Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘doBy’ is not available (for R version 2.15.2)

I have followed all the instructions given here : http://www.r-bloggers.com/installing-r-packages/

Can someone please suggest where I might be going wrong ?

Answer 1

If you are on Ubuntu, please see this README for Ubuntu from CRAN --- it will allow you to get to the current version of R (today 3.0.2, in a few days 3.0.3) with mininal effort.

Once you have a current R version, getting the doBy package (which depends on it) installed is a piece of cake too.

If however you prefer to stay with your version of R, you can manually fetch an older version of doBy from its CRAN archive. Download to, say, /tmp and run R CMD INSTALLby hand on it.

Answer 2

From http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doBy/index.html, package doBy depends on R version 3.0 and above. Your R version is 2.15.2. You will need to install a later version of R, and then change the settings in Rstudio to target the updated version.