Installing custom packages in R Studio

Question

I m totally new to R . I was initially working on R Studio installed on ubuntu .It was working fine and now I wanted to shift to windows as I am comfortable on it .I have R and R studio installed but now when I try to install all those custom packages that was earlier available on ubuntu by :

install.packages('package-name');

it returns:

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Ashique/Documents/R/win-library/3.0’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) Warning in install.packages : package ‘package-name’ is not available (for R version 3.0.3)

Even when I try to install bigmemory I get the same error .

Please Help !!

Answer 1

It seems like the bigmemory package is unavailable for Windows: CRAN ReadMe - bigmemory

To install packages manually: From a directory: install.packages(file_name_and_path, repos = NULL, type="source")

From url: install.packages("bigmemory", repos = "http://www.omegahat.org/R", type="source")

See also: How do I install an R package from source?