[R] Antwort: Re: packrat: Failed to download current version of foreign(0.8-67)

[Uwe Ligges]

Yes, then we cannot help and you have to ask your company how to get the 
files, of course.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



On 21.02.2017 08:16, G.Maubach at weinwolf.de wrote:
> Hi Mr. Ligges,
>
> doing as you said R responds with
>
> install.packages("foreign")
> trying URL
> 'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/foreign_0.8-67.zip'
> Warning in install.packages :
>   cannot open URL
> 'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/foreign_0.8-67.zip':
> HTTP status was '403 Forbidden (Content blocked by Trustwave Secure Web
> Gateway)'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   cannot open URL
> 'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/foreign_0.8-67.zip'
> Warning in install.packages :
>   download of package ‘foreign’ failed
>
> Running
>
> install.packages("foreign", type = "source")
> trying URL
> 'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/src/contrib/foreign_0.8-67.tar.gz'
> Warning in install.packages :
>   cannot open URL
> 'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/src/contrib/foreign_0.8-67.tar.gz': HTTP
> status was '403 Forbidden (Content blocked by Trustwave Secure Web
> Gateway)'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   cannot open URL
> 'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/src/contrib/foreign_0.8-67.tar.gz'
> Warning in install.packages :
>   download of package ‘foreign’ failed
>
> The firewall in my company blocks all binary files. Foreign is downloaded
> in "wb" mode. Thus I have no chance to get it. The first fresh
> installation was done from an external drive. As packrat is also
> downloading the binaries instead of the source my download will always
> fail.
>
> My sessionInfo() is
> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> [7] base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.3.2
>
> Do have a suggestion?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Georg
>
>
>
>
>
> Von:    Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
> An:     G.Maubach at weinwolf.de, r-help at r-project.org,
> Datum:  20.02.2017 21:29
> Betreff:        Re: [R] packrat: Failed to download current version of
> foreign(0.8-67)
>
>
>
> foreign is a recommended package that is already part of your R
> installation. and there shoudl not be a problem to install a recent
> version of it.
>
> What is the error message of you run
> install.packages("foreign") from a new R session?
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
> On 20.02.2017 17:33, G.Maubach at weinwolf.de wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I tried to use packrat on
>>
>> R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252
>> [2] LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252
>> [3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252
>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>> [7] base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] packrat_0.4.8-1
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_3.3.2
>>
>> Due to internal firewall restrictions the package "foreign" could not be
>> downloaded as source. I assume that the package also contains some
> binary
>> parts which will be blocked by the firewall.
>>
>> When running packrat a directory "packrat" and a file called .Rprofile
>> were created in the project directory. A lot of library sources were
>> download, but not for "foreign".
>>
>> After finishing the process the directory "packrat" and the file
> .Rprofile
>> were deleted from the project directory.
>>
>> Why is that? Just one source library missing and the whole directory is
>> gone? Having all libraries for my project without just one is better
> than
>> none!
>>
>> How can I use packrat with the missing library "foreign"?
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Georg
>>
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