Indeed, if you repeat the code you provided before then the problem will not go
away because you are not using the knowledge we have given you. You need to
show us what you are trying differently based on the explanations provided on
the mailing list. If you don't do this then we cannot move forward to more
specific answers.
As a reminder:
> Execute your code line by line and solve the first error you
>encounter by examining the error message and reviewing what that line
>of code is designed to do.
On January 16, 2019 11:48:03 AM PST, N Meriam <meriam....@gmail.com> wrote:
>Thanks for your valuable clarifications.
>I tried all the steps again but the problem remains.
>In fact, "fviz_nbclust" is a function inside the package "factoextra".
>I run each step very carefully but the problem remains...It doesn't
>make sense because I have installed factoextra.
>
>This warning appears:
>could not find function "fviz_nbclust"
>
>On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 1:22 PM Jeff Newmiller
><jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>>
>> Concept 1: You don't install functions... you install packages that
>have functions in them. There is a function fviz_nbclust in factoextra.
>>
>> Concept 2: Once a package is installed, you do NOT have to install it
>again, e.g. every time you want to do that analysis. Making the
>installation part of your script is not advised.
>>
>> Concept 3: Typically we do use the library function with a package
>name at the beginning of every session where we want to use functions
>from that package. However, that is optional... you could also just
>invoke the function directly using
>factoextra::fviz_nbclust(...blahblah...). Having the library function
>shortens this and if the package is not installed it provides a clear
>error message that can be a reminder to the user to install the
>package.
>>
>> Execute your code line by line and solve the first error you
>encounter by examining the error message and reviewing what that line
>of code is designed to do.
>>
>> On January 16, 2019 11:00:07 AM PST, N Meriam <meriam....@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> >Hello,
>> >I'm struggling to install a function called "fviz_nbclus".
>> >
>> >My code is the following:
>> >pkgs <- c("factoextra", "NbClust")
>> >install.packages(pkgs)
>> >library(factoextra)
>> >library(NbClust)
>> ># Standardize the data
>> >load("df4.rda")
>> >library(FunCluster)
>> >
>> >install.packages("fviz_nbclust")
>> >#fviz_nbclust(df4, FUNcluster, method = c("silhouette", "wss",
>> >"gap_stat"))
>> >
>> >Installing package into ‘C:/Users/DELL/Documents/R/win-library/3.5’
>> >(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>> >Warning in install.packages :
>> > package ‘fviz_nbclust’ is not available (for R version 3.5.2)
>> >
>> >Best,
>> >Meriam
>> >
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