R Studio Erroring out when trying to install.packages ('IpSolve')

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#1

Hello!

I'm a newby at R and could use some help figuring out this issue.

I've tried to install IpSolveAPI, but erroring out.

install.packages('IpSolveAPI')
Here is my error message:
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Dell/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages : package ‘IpSolveAPI’ is not available for this version of R
A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere,
see the ideas at R Installation and Administration

I updated my RStudio to ver4.3.2 and downloaded the IpSolve_5.6.19.tar package from CRAN [CRAN - Package lpSolve] extracted it. Tried to install the package again but still receiving the same error

Not sure what to do next?

Any help would be most appreciated!
Marissa

#2

Hello, some questions to help us investigate:

  • How did you install R? Are you using Anaconda?
  • What is the output of the following command?
    getOption("repos")
#3

As a follow up to @ Gabor I had no problem with an installation on basic plain-vanilla R setup on R version 4.3.2 (2023-10-31).

You might want to install the {pak} package and try

pak::pkg_install("IpSolveAPI")
#4

Actually, this is a simple typo, it is lpSolveAPI, with an l and not IpsolveAPI with a capital I.

#5

Hi Gabor,
Thank you for responding to my issue!

  1. Here is the result of the AP1 code you wanted me to run:

install.packages('IpSolveAP1')
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Dell/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘IpSolveAP1’ is not available for this version of R

A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere,
see the ideas at

-->Basically the same error I received when trying to run using API with a capital "i"

  1. You asked me to run getOption()
    Here is the code result:

getOption('repos')
CRAN
"https://cran.rstudio.com/"
attr(,"RStudio")
[1] TRUE

What else can I try?
Maybe I will try it from Anaconda...

Thank u
Marissa

#6

Hi Gabor,
Please see my response on the next post.
Thanks,
Marissa

#7

Hello,
I installed R from https://cran.rstudio.com/ not Anaconda.

Marissa

#8

That seems like another typo. The name of the package is lpSolveAPI:

#9

Hi Gabor,
I managed to install.packages using a small letter "L" prefixing lpSolveAPI.

install.packages('lpSolveAPI')
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Dell/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.3/lpSolveAPI_5.5.2.0-17.10.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 593395 bytes (579 KB)
downloaded 579 KB

package ‘lpSolveAPI’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpeUcrbs\downloaded_packages

thanks for all of your help!

M