How to install a specific version of a package in R

在使用R语言完成数据分析的过程中，很多时候，因为项目实际需要，我们应该指定某些库文件的安装包的版本，这个时候，我们可以基于devtools包中的函数install_version来完成。

这里，我们以安装库文件ggplot2的安装包的版本号为3.3.6为例来说明，即

devtools::install_version("ggplot2",version = "3.3.6",repos = "https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/CRAN/")

说明如下：

• version

版本号

• repos

仓库地址，这里将其指定为清华大学开源镜像站的地址

devtools::install_version("ggplot2",version = "3.3.6",repos = "https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/CRAN/")
Downloading package from url: https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/CRAN//src/contrib/Archive/ggplot2/ggplot2_3.3.6.tar.gz
Installing package into ‘/home/lwk/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package ‘ggplot2’ ...
** package ‘ggplot2’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** data
*** moving datasets to lazyload DB
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
*** copying figures
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (ggplot2)

参考文献

• Installing older versions of packages
• R 3.2.3 devtools::install_version() fails (.zip file not found)