packages not available for R version 4.0.2

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Administrator/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘rowr’ is not available (for R version 4.0.2)
Warning in install.packages :
   package ‘rowr’ is not available (for R version 4.0.2)

When you try to install a package in R, and you get a message like this, (I usually first double-check I spelled the package correctly, which is usually my problem), check if that package is on CRAN.

This currently reports,
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rowr/index.html

Package ‘rowr’ was removed from the CRAN repository.

Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive.

Archived on 2020-01-28 as check problems were not corrected despite reminders.

Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rowr to link to this page.

If you'd really like to install one of those archived versions, check out these instructions, "Installing an older package from source"

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Thank you for the reply!

I also tried installing an old version, but then I got this

package ‘install_version’ is not available (for R version 4.0.2)

It seems that the installer for older versions is also not available for the last R version... so it is a chicken an egg situation...

Any ideas?

install_version() comes from devtools so you need to have it installed and loaded to use this function.

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Thanks, this worked!

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