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

[Duncan Murdoch]

Just remembered:  RStudio runs its own wrapper around 
install.packages().  Steven, you should try doing the install from 
outside of RStudio, and see if it makes a difference.

Duncan Murdoch

On 08/10/2020 9:59 a.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> He didn't specify the RStudio repos, though it's probably implicitly
> specified in getOption("repos").  I wonder why install.packages() is
> looking there, when repos is given explicitly?
> 
> On 08/10/2020 8:54 a.m., Uwe Ligges wrote:
>> Drop the RStudio repos.
>>
>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>> On 05.10.2020 11:10, Steven Yen wrote:
>>> Thanks. I did as suggested but still received a warning, though the
>>> installation went through. Anything I could do to install without the
>>> warning message.
>>>
>>> What is the contrib.url argument?
>>>
>>>    > install.packages("aod",repos='https://cran-archive.r-project.org')
>>> Warning in install.packages :
>>>      unable to access index for repository
>>> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0
>>> trying URL
>>> 'https://cran-archive.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/aod_1.3.zip'
>>> Content type 'application/zip' length 225712 bytes (220 Kb)
>>> opened URL
>>> downloaded 220 Kb
>>>
>>> package ‘aod’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>>>
>>> The downloaded binary packages are in
>>> C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp46p9a3\downloaded_packages
>>>    >
>>>
>>> On 2020/10/5 下午 04:58, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>>> Then you'd rather need
>>>>
>>>> install.packages("aod",repos='https://cran-archive.r-project.org')
>>>>
>>>> or use the contrib.url argument.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 05.10.2020 10:47, Steven Yen wrote:
>>>>> Thanks for the help. I do update to the latest R-4.0.2. As I said,
>>>>> for reasons that's hard to explain, some of my tasks are better
>>>>> handled with an older version of R, in this case R-3.0.3. Please just
>>>>> help me install packages successfully with this older version of R.
>>>>>
>>>>> I ran the following line but obviously was not getting it across.
>>>>>
>>>>> =====
>>>>>
>>>>>> install.packages("aod",repos='https://cran-archive.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/')
>>>>>> Warning in
>>>>> install.packages : unable to access index for repository
>>>>> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 Warning in
>>>>> install.packages : unable to access index for repository
>>>>> https://cran-archive.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/bin/windows/contrib/3.0
>>>>> Warning in install.packages : package ‘aod’ is not available (for R
>>>>> version 3.0.3)
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2020/10/5 下午 04:12, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>>>>> From
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ../ReadMe
>>>>>> in the mentioned web resource:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Packages for R >= 1.7.0 and R < 3.2.0 are available from
>>>>>> https://cran-archive.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We do not hold binaries of several year old versions of R on CRAN.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Note that R 3.0.0 is 7 years old. You shoudl realy consider to
>>>>>> update to 4.0.2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 05.10.2020 09:56, Steven Yen wrote:
>>>>>>> I had to install/use an older version of (R-3.0.3) for a reason. While
>>>>>>> installing a package from CRAN (either in RStudio or R), I received
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> following warning message saying unable to access index for repository
>>>>>>> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0. See message below. In
>>>>>>> this case, I tried to install "aod". The install nevertheless went
>>>>>>> through, as confirmed by the library statement (I did not try to use
>>>>>>> it). Any idea? Thank you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> =====
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Warning: unable to access index for repository
>>>>>>> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 Warning: unable to
>>>>>>> access index for repository
>>>>>>> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 >
>>>>>>> install.packages("aod") Warning in install.packages : unable to access
>>>>>>> index for repository http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0
>>>>>>> Warning in install.packages : unable to access index for repository
>>>>>>> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 package ‘aod’ is
>>>>>>> available as a source package but not as a binary Warning in
>>>>>>> install.packages : package ‘aod’ is not available (for R version
>>>>>>> 3.0.3)
>>>>>>>     > library(aod)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>       [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>>>>>>
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