How to install RQDA version in R version 4.02?

Question

How to install RQDA version in R version 4.02? Warning in install.packages : package ‘RQDA’ is not available (as a binary package for R version 4.0.2)

Answer 1

The official published package has been archived, because of some of its dependencies. However, the package can still be installed from the archives. The steps to do this are as follows:

1. Install RGtk2 from CRAN.
2. Install the archived versions of gWidgets and gWidgetsRGtk2. devtools::install_version can do this quite easily when the right arguments are passed to the function. Consult the help file.
3. Call library(RGtk2) at the R console. You will be prompted to install the GUI library Gtk+, if you don't already have it.
4. Install the archived version of RQDA from CRAN. If you are using a 64-bit system, you will have to pass the --no-multiarch flag, or else it will fail.
5. Launch RQDA with library(RQDA).

I have used these steps to successfully install the package on Windows 10 64-bit running R-4.0.3. Others have used a similar algorithm to do it on Linux and Mac with only slight variations.

Since I had to replicate this for some members of my team I wrote an R script that can be used to carry out the installation. You are welcome to try it out.

That said, development on the main RQDA branch has recommenced, so I expect a resolution of this issue in the near future.

Answer 2

You could have a look at the fork at https://github.com/RQDA/RQDA. Since packages that RQDA rely on have been archived on CRAN (RGtk and GtkWidgets), RQDA was archived subsequently.