Download prior version of a package cran

The repositories are searched in the order specified by the repos argument. This enables teams to maintain multiple in-house repositories with different policies - for instance, one repo for development snapshots and one for official releases. A common setup would be to first search the official release repo, then the dev snapshot repo, then a public CRAN mirror.

Older versions of packages on CRAN are usually only available in source form. If your requested package contains compiled code, you will need to have an R development environment installed. I suppose it's possible it might still be on some CRAN mirrors.

If your coworker just installed it, compare getOption "repos" values between the two sessions. Try to install if from the repo she used if possible. Related: stackoverflow. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. The package has been archived, so you will have to install from an archive. Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive. Archived on as memory access errors were not corrected.

IRTFM k 20 20 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Andrie Andrie k 40 40 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Thanks so much for the help everyone! Andrie I copied and pasted your code into RStudio and it worked perfectly but I had to download a few other packages that RecordLinkage depends on first.

If CRAN is local, i. The main function of the bundle is update. First a list of all packages found in lib. Packages with a newer version are reported and for each one the user can specify if it should be updated. It takes a vector of package names and a destination library, downloads the packages from CRAN and installs them. Should package dependencies be upgraded? One of "default", "ask", "always", or "never".

For non-interactive sessions "ask" is equivalent to "always". This is not passed to available. For more details on supported URL schemes see url. The repositories are searched in the order specified by the repos argument. This enables teams to maintain multiple in-house repositories with different policies - for instance, one repo for development snapshots and one for official releases. A common setup would be to first search the official release repo, then the dev snapshot repo, then a public CRAN mirror.

Older versions of packages on CRAN are usually only available in source form. If your requested package contains compiled code, you will need to have an R development environment installed.