[R] Warning: unable to access index for repository...

[Bert Gunter]

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Cheers,
Bert



On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 1:19 PM Tully Holmes <tully.holmes using wyo.gov> wrote:

> Good afternoon,
>
> I'm trying to install a package with the "install.packages" command in
> RGUI, and get the following error message:
>
>
> > install.packages ("tidyverse")
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> https://mran.microsoft.com/snapshot/2017-05-01/src/contrib:
>   cannot open URL ''
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> https://mran.microsoft.com/snapshot/2017-05-01/bin/windows/contrib/3.3:
>   cannot open URL '
>
> https://mran.microsoft.com/snapshot/2017-05-01/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/PACKAGES
> '
> Warning message:
> package ‘tidyverse’ is not available (for R version 3.3.3)
>
>
> Is there any documentation available that might document all the
> destination IP addresses that are involved when the "install.packages"
> command is ran?  Our R server is in a part of the state network that has
> limited access to the internet, so I need to have outbound openings made in
> the firewall that will let the install.packages command access what it
> needs to access .  Earlier I have coordinated with the firewall team to
> open ports 80 and 443 outbound from our R server to the 3 IP addresses that
> correspond to mran.microsoft.com, cran.microsoft.com, and
> www.stats.ox.ac.uk.
> I looked up these 3 IP addresses at network-tools.com.  I think there
> might
> be additional IP addresses involved, because after these openings were
> made, I'm still getting the error message above.
>
> Thanks,
>
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