Manually installing CRAN to access xtable library

Question

I tried installing CRAN into R using

install.packages("cran")

The code would run but in the console the following message would appear

  package ‘cran’ is not available for this version of R

How can I install cran on my version of R?

CRAN is not a package, it is the main repository for R package — Basti, Apr 02 '21 at 14:09

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 02 '21 at 14:10

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CRAN is a repo not package, have you tried this:

install.packages("xtable",repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")

answered Apr 02 '21 at 14:10

Mathmen

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 02 '21 at 20:02

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Better still just type install.packages("xtable")

edited Apr 02 '21 at 20:02

Ben Bolker

answered Apr 02 '21 at 19:47

Moses

perhaps explain the difference from the accepted answer (i.e., this approach will use a previously selected repository or pop up a selection box asking you to pick a CRAN mirror from a list ...) ? – Ben Bolker Apr 02 '21 at 20:03

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