Error installing arulesViz package

[venkataseshan]

I tried to install arulesViz package but ended up with below error. I even tried installing TPS and data.table packages referring to a previous thread but could not succeed.

• installing source package 'arulesViz' ...
  ** package 'arulesViz' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ** R
  ** inst
  ** preparing package for lazy loading
  Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
  there is no package called 'dendextend'
  ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'arulesViz'
• removing 'C:/Users/venka/Documents/R/win-library/3.4/arulesViz'
  In R CMD INSTALL
  Warning in install.packages :
  running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-34~1.4/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\venka\Documents\R\win-library\3.4" C:\Users\venka\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpwLUeQZ/downloaded_packages/arulesViz_1.3-3.tar.gz' had status 1
  Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘arulesViz’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
‘C:\Users\venka\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpwLUeQZ\downloaded_packages’

[andresrcs]

@venkataseshan

there is no package called 'dendextend'

The error message is telling you that you are missing this dependency, try installing it first

install.packages("dendextend")

[venkataseshan]

Hi Andre,

Thanks for your reply. I even tried installing dendextend and it too failed with missing ggplot2. Then I installed ggplot2 and it too failed to install. Almost all had same error message. Any clues?

[andresrcs]

@venkataseshan

Almost all had same error message. Any clues?

The only solution is to solve the missing dependencies, they are not the same for all packages. As a shortcut try with

install.packages("tidyverse", dependencies = TRUE) 

If you get any more error messages please post them here, we can't help you without information.

[ssapre]

Had the same issue on MacOS. The below steps fixed it. It might work on Windows as well.
Try out the following steps:

1. Go to site-library folder where R is installed (also make sure to change version from 3.6 to whatever you have) - R/3.6/site-library/
2. In the site-library folder, remove the directory 00LOCK-igraph ( I used rm -r 00LOCK-igraph)
3. Install package TSP
4. Install package data.table
5. Install package arulesViz

Hope this helps!

[LAURA_Q]

I had the similiar issue and I installed the latest R version 3.6.1 and was able to install the package arulesViz successfully. Give it a try.