In library package lib loc lib loc character only TRUE logical return TRUE there is no package called gridExtra

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to use the gridExtra module to combine two plot. But it is showing me the below error.

gridExtra::grid.arrange(iris1,iris2)
Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called ‘gridExtra’

How can I solve this error?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

In your r studio, the gridExtra module is not available. You can use the below command to install this module.

> install.packages('gridExtra')
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.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/gridExtra_2.3.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1109122 bytes (1.1 MB)
downloaded 1.1 MB
package ‘gridExtra’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checke
The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\Nadeem Akhter\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmps3pgcC\downloaded_packages

Hope this will solve your error.