Miss colorout library (Installing rCharts)

Question

I am installing rcharts library for my R, version 3.5.0.

I have previously sucessfully installed rcharts for version 3.4. But I redo operations for R 3.5.0 and it is buggy.

I download https://github.com/ramnathv/rCharts, load the devtools, Rcpp, RCurl, RJSONIO libraries. Finally I install:

install.packages ("C: / rchartsdownload", repos = NULL, type = "source")

And this is the result I got

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Configuration CDC :

    Proxy :
        HTTP  = pxy-http-srv:8080
        HTTPS = pxy-http-srv:8080

    Serveur de paquets (le seul accessible via le proxy) :
        https://mirror.ibcp.fr/pub/CRAN/

    Librairie locale de paquets : 
        C:\Developpement\R_Packages\

    Fichiers de config pris en compte :
        C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-35~1.0\Renviron.site
        C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-35~1.0\Rprofile.site
Error in library("colorout") : 
  no package named 'colorout' is found
Stopped execution
In R CMD INSTALL
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘C:/rchartsdownload’ had non-zero exit status

It looks like it's missing colorout library. However, I learned that this library was deleted and no longer exists on R. So how do I fix this?

Hope to hear back from you soon,

Thank you very much

Answer 1

You can try installing the package by starting R with R --vanilla and then running install.packages(..) (or respectively install_github(..)). I assume you might have a ~/.Rprofile command which tries to load colourout