[R] problems with packages installation

Thu Feb 12 18:14:46 CET 2015

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On February 12, 2015 11:40:48 AM EST, PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at precheza.cz> wrote:
>Dear all
>
>I just switched to new version
>
>> version
>               _
>platform       i386-w64-mingw32
>arch           i386
>os             mingw32
>system         i386, mingw32
>status         Under development (unstable)
>major          3
>minor          2.0
>year           2015
>month          02
>day            11
>svn rev        67792
>language       R
>version.string R Under development (unstable) (2015-02-11 r67792)
>nickname       Unsuffered Consequences
>
>and started to have problems with installing packages through utils
>
>> setInternet2(TRUE)
>> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
>--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>also installing the dependencies ‘colorspace’, ‘Rcpp’, ‘stringr’,
>‘RColorBrewer’, ‘dichromat’, ‘munsell’, ‘labeling’, ‘plyr’, ‘digest’,
>‘gtable’, ‘reshape2’, ‘scales’, ‘proto’
>
>trying URL
>'http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/colorspace_1.2-4.zip'
>Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>cannot open URL
>'http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/colorspace_1.2-4.zip'
>In addition: Warning message:
>In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>  cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
>Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available =
>available,  :
>  download of package ‘colorspace’ failed
>....
>
>Before I start to disturb our IT I just want to know what could be the
>issue. AFAIK I did not change anything on my PC. In previous R-devel
>version I used this package installation worked (and still works)
>
>> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
>--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>trying URL
>'http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/mice_2.22.zip'
>Content type 'application/zip' length 1148843 bytes (1.1 Mb)
>opened URL
>downloaded 1.1 Mb
>
>package ‘mice’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
>The downloaded binary packages are in
>C:\Documents and Settings\PikalP\Local
>Settings\Temp\RtmpgZuQB3\downloaded_packages
>
>> version
>               _
>platform       i386-w64-mingw32
>arch           i386
>os             mingw32
>system         i386, mingw32
>status         Under development (unstable)
>major          3
>minor          2.0
>year           2014
>month          07
>day            16
>svn rev        66175
>language       R
>version.string R Under development (unstable) (2014-07-16 r66175)
>nickname       Unsuffered Consequences
>
>can you suggest what changed between those 2 R versions what prevents
>me in convenient installation of packages.
>
>Petr
>
>BTW. I can install packages manually but when there are many
>dependencies it can be rather tricky.
>
>
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