Is the plyr package for R not available for R version 3.0.2?

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The answer is that the package is available in R (just checked this on my machine).

The particular error message that you are getting is very misleading. It is R's `catch-all' condition for anything that it doesn't understand going wrong during installation. You will get this error if you mis-spelled anything (Plyr instead of plyr) or your network connection is not working, or you are behind a proxy or whatever.

I typically get this problem when I am behind a proxy or I have mis-spelled something. But it can be because of any other number of reasons. I will suggest you make sure you can access the internet from inside R first.

If nothing works, you can always download the package from CRAN using a browser. If you are on Windows, you want the .zip version and if you are on *nix you want the .tar.gz version. (.tgz for Macs?). Then you can install it like so:

setwd("/path/where/I/downloaded/the/compressed/file")
install.packages("plyr", repos=NULL)

See if that works.

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Updated on September 12, 2022

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eTothEipiPlus1 over 1 year

I tried installing the plyr package and I got the warning message saying it isn't available for R version 3.0.2. Is this true or is no? If not, why would I be getting this message? I tried using two different CRAN mirrors and both gave the same message.
- Maiasaura over 10 years
  
  Look under Downloads here: cran.r-project.org/web/packages/plyr/index.html Grab the binary for your OS, and install from local binary package (see R's Packages & Data menu).
- bli almost 9 years
  
  I found a solution here: <askubuntu.com/questions/605586/installing-plyr-on-ubuntu-14‌-04> The correct version of plyr (1.8-1) is available in Ubuntu as package r-cran-plyr. This still doesn't explain why trying to install plyr it from R doesn't work.