Since I've developed my R into 3.6.1, mailR package is not working anymore getting this error: there is no package called ‘R.utils’. Installing this package does not work either. Is there any way to fix it?
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How did you update your R and your packages? If it can't find `R.utils`, you can just install it with `install.packages("R.utils")`. Not sure why this dependency wouldn't have been installed. – MrFlick Dec 11 '19 at 15:48
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I already tried to install R.utils the same way you said but it has a problem with loading it. – Ali Sobhani Dec 12 '19 at 09:55
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What exactly is the problem loading it? You need to be able to install all the dependencies for a given package before it will work. – MrFlick Dec 12 '19 at 14:02
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The package mailR depends on rJava package.
"It’s a wrapper around Apache Commons Email, an email library built on top of the Java Mail API. Due to this, mailR has a dependency on the rJava package, a low-level interface to Java VM.", source.
Therefore, you need to install the package rJava in order to use mailR, and you need to have Java Runtime Environment on your operating system in order for rJava to work properly. I recommend using either Oracle's or OpenJDK.
After you have these installed, you need to include both libraries:
library(rJava)
library(mailR)
Note that you might run into an error that says Error in library(mailR) : there is no package called ‘mailR’ even though you have it installed. In this case, restart your PC, run R Studio again and then include the library, and there should be no issues.
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