[Bioc-devel] Timeout during package installation

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fhcrc.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Marcus Moeller <marcus.moeller at gmx.ch> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>>
>>> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Marcus Moeller <marcus.moeller at gmx.ch>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> since a while we often got timeouts during package installation using:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/bin/R --no-save --no-restore <<<
>>>> 'source(\"http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R\"); biocLite(\"$name\")
>>>>
>>>> Has there been any problems with the mirror/source server?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not that I'm aware of. What package were you trying to install and
>>> what was the exact error message you received? Is the problem resolved
>>> now?
>>
>>
>> R-Rgraphviz is the package I am trying to install.
>>
>> But there are some other packages that timeout during installation, even
>> from cran:
>
>
> Which CRAN mirror are you using?
>>
>> [R-mboost]
>> [hgu133a.db]
>> [spatstat]
>> [RBGL]
>>
>> R-Rgraphviz is the one that timeouts on every try.
>>
>
> You mean Rgraphviz?
>
> And what is the error message you are seeing? And what is the output of
> sessionInfo()?
>

Also, you might want to think about using closer CRAN and Bioconductor
mirrors, with chooseCRANmirror() and chooseBioCmirror() respectively.

Dan



> Thanks,
> Dan
>
>
>
>
>> Greets
>> Marcus