R How to install package 'graph'?

Question

The package graph isn´t available on CRAN anymore. I found that it has moved to Bioconductor, see

Bioconductor - graph

But actually, if I try to run the commands they advise to run

install.packages("BiocInstaller")
source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("graph")

I get the error that even the BiocInstaller is not available for the latest R version 3.4.2

How can I install this package?

Answer 1

See if this works:

First, download the zip file from http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/graph.html

Second, install the package locally:

install.packages("yourpath/graph_1.56.0.zip",repos=NULL)

Then, library(graph) will load the package. You'll get a warning message the package was created unter a different version of R, but it will likely work this way.

Answer 2

Don't use this command: install.packages("BiocInstaller")

This page crosswalks Biconductor version to R version https://www.bioconductor.org/about/release-announcements/

> Release   R
> 3.7, 3.8  3.5
> 3.5, 3.6  3.4
> 3.3, 3.4  3.3

For R 3.4.2 you need Bioconductor 3.6 https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/3.6/bioc/html/graph.html

source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("graph")

Answer 3

See the instructions at http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/graph.html :

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "3.5") and enter:

if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("graph", version = "3.8")