Error in library plyr there is no package called plyr

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to use plyr library. But it is showing me the below error.

> library(plyr)
Error in library(plyr) : there is no package called ‘plyr’

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You need to install this library in your system. This library is not available in your system You can use the below command.

> install.packages("plyr")
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:
https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Nadeem Akhter/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-old-release/?C=N;O=D'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1499674 bytes (1.4 MB)
downloaded 1.4 MB
package ‘plyr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\Nadeem Akhter\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpIvY2m6\downloaded_packages