I was having all sorts of issues with errors like:
not supported in current version
cannot find DEPENDENCIES
cannot unzip
If you are running windows and installed for all users and are running as a normal user (which you should be for all sorts of reasons) installing packages is interesting.
What I ended up doing was
close R
open R as admin
load base package
I had already downloaded the packages so I could install offline and they were in f:\software\rcontrib
then run:
files=list.files(path="f:/software/rcontrib",pattern="*.zip",include.dirs=TRUE)
for (i in seq(along=files)){install.packages(files[i],repos=NULL)}
This will bulk load packages from the local directory / common file share / non-internet location.
Then you can exit R. Running as any user on the machine you should be able to use the packages.
This will hopefully save people the couple of hours I wasted trying to bulk load and overcome errors in R which were actually windows security.