install.packages

I'm perplexed. I've done this process a dozen times and never had this issue. I installed the latest version of R for Ubuntu I enter R, no issues at all, gives me the latest version, and I can load native packages. But When I try to install new packages, they download, but I get nothing. For example, if I install ggplot2: > install.packages("ggplot2") Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) also installing the dependencies ‘colorspace’, ‘stringr’, ‘RColorBrewer’, ‘dichromat’, ‘munsell’, ‘labeling’, ‘plyr’, ‘digest’, ‘gtable’, ‘reshape2’, ‘scales’,

I'm new with R, and I'm having some trouble loading the car library. I use Windows 8.1 (64 bit) and i'm working in 32 bit R environment. I downloaded the library just fine, but when i try to load the car library using library(car) the message i get is: Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) : there is no package called ‘quantreg’ Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘car’ This message came up asking for several other libraries besides quantreg . I downloaded some of those other libraries in the hope that it would be enough to run car, but

I had everything working with R and RStudio, but then I moved the folders when cleaning up my computer directories & files. Now I'm getting the error message below. Should R and RStudio be installed under Program Files or Program Files (x86) ? Should I have two libPaths ? install.packages("C:/Users/kevin/Downloads/fpp_0.5.zip", repos = NULL) ## Warning in install.packages : ## package ‘C:/Users/kevin/Downloads/fpp_0.5.zip’ ## is not available (for R version 3.0.0) ## Installing package into ‘C:/Users/kevin/Documents/R/win-library/3.0’ ## (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) ## package ‘fpp’ successfully