R CRAN, install library Rcpp fails after R3.2 upgrade

Question

I upgraded from R-3.1 to R-3.2. OK ( Standard upgrade)

But this upgrade seems to have lost all the installed packages ( ggplot2, quantmod, Rcpp among dozens and doze

Answer 1

I had the same problem , (and actually just fixed it before someone noticed it was a duplication of this question and directed me here) turned out it was my winzip being unregistered, so not able to unpack the files into the folder I specified, once I extracted them to the appropriate folder myself, it worked no problem.