Installing rCharts package problems

[oliverbott]

Hi everybody, I am wondering whether you guys are also having issues with installing the 'rCharts' package for R.

When using install.packages("rCharts") I get the following error message:

Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘rCharts’ is not available (for R version 3.1.1) 

When trying to use the code require(devtools) and install_github('rCharts', 'ramnathv') from the website http://ramnathv.github.io/rCharts/ I get:

Downloading github repo ramnathv/rCharts@master
Installing rCharts
"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.1/bin/i386/R" --vanilla CMD INSTALL  \
  "C:\Users\a6p\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp8qMYZJ\devtools127413d7605b\ramnathv-rCharts-929875d"  \
  --library="C:/Users/a6p/Documents/R/win-library/3.1" --install-tests 

* installing *source* package 'rCharts' ...
** R
** demo
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) : 
  there is no package called 'Rcpp'
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'rCharts'
* removing 'C:/Users/a6p/Documents/R/win-library/3.1/rCharts'
Error: Command failed (1)
In addition: Warning message:
Username parameter is deprecated. Please use ramnathv/rCharts 

Have you been able to install the rCharts package? Can you help out? Thanks a lot.

[christophergandrud]

Thanks for posting the full error message. It looks like you need to install Rcpp. This is available on CRAN so you should be able to install it with install.packages('Rcpp').

Also, the final warning is telling you to use install_github('ramnathv/rCharts') rather than install_github('rCharts', 'ramnathv'). Though this shouldn't have anything to do with the installation failing.

[fzhang988]

To whom it may concern: I tried to follow the instruction on this website: http://ramnathv.github.io/rCharts/ Here is my R console information:

install.packages('Rcpp') install_github('rCharts', 'ramnathv')

Downloading github repo ramnathv/rCharts@master Installing rCharts "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.1/bin/i386/R" --vanilla CMD INSTALL "C:/Users/Administrator/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpAxG5xa/devtools23d4d8e3233/ramnathv-rCharts-389e214" --library="C:/Program \ Files/R/R-3.1.1/library" --install-tests

• installing source package 'rCharts' ...

* R * demo * inst * preparing package for lazy loading \ help ** installing help indices * building package indices \ testing if installed package can be loaded

• DONE (rCharts) Warning message： Username parameter is deprecated. Please use ramnathv/rCharts

names(iris) = gsub(".", "", names(iris)) rPlot(SepalLength ~ SepalWidth | Species, data = iris, color = 'Species', type = 'point') ERROR: No"rPlot" function

My question: Why is there No"rPlot" function?

Thanks!

[christophergandrud]

In the code above it doesn't look like you've loaded the package (library(rCharts)). I would give that a shot first.

[fzhang988]

Now, it worked. Thanks!