安装旧软件包R

Question

i'm working in Rstudio version 0.98.507.0 and R 3.1.1. I'm working in a virtual machine, i can not install anything in the computer (professional computer and it's take so long to get authorization for new installation)

i'm looking to install package " plotly " but this package require " dplyr " to work; The current version of " dplyr " is only working with R version 3.1.2

as well i'm trying to install an older version of "dplyr but nothing works. i downloaded the files from cran. i put the file in the directory and here are the code i have tryied and the error message i got:

1)

install.packages("J:/ PATH TO THE FILE/dplyr_0.7.0.tar.gz",repos = NULL, type="source") 

the error is:

   Warning: invalid package 'J:/ PATH/dplyr_0.7.0.tar.gz'
 Error: ERROR: no packages specified
 Warning in install.packages :
 running command '"Q:/R.001/R-31~1.1/bin/i386/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\I0368711\Documents\R\win-library\3.1" "J:/PATH/R/dplyr_0.7.0.tar.gz"' had status 1
 Warning in install.packages :
 installation of package ‘J:/PATH/dplyr_0.7.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status 

2) Then i tried to set the working directory, and i run

install.packages("dplyr_0.7.0.tar.gz",repos = NULL, type="source")

the error message is

CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
 UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory.
PATH TO THE FILE
 Warning: invalid package 'dplyr_0.7.0.tar.gz'
 Error: ERROR: no packages specified
 Warning in install.packages :
 running command '"Q:/R.001/R-31~1.1/bin/i386/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\I0368711\Documents\R\win-library\3.1" "dplyr_0.7.0.tar.gz"' had status 1
 Warning in install.packages :
 installation of package ‘dplyr_0.7.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status
 Warning in install.packages :
 running command '"Q:/R.001/R-31~1.1/bin/i386/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\I0368711\Documents\R\win-library\3.1" "dplyr_0.7.0.tar.gz"' had status 1
 Warning in install.packages :
 installation of package ‘dplyr_0.7.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status 

3)
i tried another solution:

install_version("dplyr", version = "0.7.0", repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")

the error message is:

Error in as.POSIXct.default(value) : 
  do not know how to convert 'value' to class “POSIXct”

4) the last solution i tried is:

 path<- "https:/cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/dplyr/dplyr_0.7.0.tar.gz"
install.packages(path, repos=NULL, type="source")

but it doesnt work too..

I really have no idea of what else i could do to try to install this packages..

sorry for my bad level in English, i made my best to create an understandable topic..

Thanks for the help

EDIT:

5)

path<- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/dplyr/dplyr_0.7.0.tar.gz"
install.packages(path, repos=NULL, type="source")

i have the message

trying URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/dplyr/dplyr_0.7.0.tar.gz'

but nothing happend and after 5 minutes I decide to close the programme

6)

install.packages("file://J:PATH/dplyr_0.7.0.tar.gz",repos = NULL, type="source")

i got the same error messager than 1.

because i got an old R version, i tryied to install dplyr version 0.1, created in 2014, but it doesnt work as well. i tryied to install the package manually in my personnal computer, to see if i'm doing something wrong, and solution 6 is working in my computer (solution 5 didnt)

Answer 1

From ?install.packages :

('http://' and 'file://' URLs are also accepted and the files will be downloaded and installed from local copies.)

So your last attempt was pretty close:

path<- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/dplyr/dplyr_0.7.0.tar.gz"
#             ^^
install.packages(path, repos=NULL, type="source")
#                ^^^^

This will work if you have all dependencies already installed locally. Also your first attempts should have worked if you had used file://J:/... .

Another possibility for getting older packages is to use an appropriate MRAN snapshot. For example, if I download the docker image rocker/r-ver:3.3.3 then https://mran.microsoft.com/snapshot/2017-04-21 is used as repository.

Answer 2

okay! So i found a way

the code to run the installation from cran website is

path<- "http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/dplyr/dplyr_0.7.0.tar.gz"
install.packages(path, repos=NULL, type="source")

There is no S at http

i still have huge problem about dependencie to install my package but i think i'll be able to solve them. Thanks for your time!