[R] problems with packages installation

Fri Feb 13 13:03:46 CET 2015

Hi Jeff

Can you be more specific why question about "using" R-devel shall be directed to R-devel help list?

Posting guide tells me:

R-help is intended to be comprehensible to people who want to use R to solve problems but who are not necessarily interested in or knowledgeable about programming. R-devel is intended for questions and discussion about code development in R. Questions likely to prompt discussion unintelligible to non-programmers should go to to R-devel. For example, questions involving C, C++, etc. code should go to R-devel. More general questions involving pure R code and questions likely to be of interest to the large and diverse set of subscribers to R-help should go to R-help.

and

If you are using an old version of R and think it does not work properly, upgrade to the latest version and try that, before posting. If possible, try the current R-patched or R-devel version of R (see the FAQ for details), to see if the problem has already been addressed.

So even Posting guide suggests to poor user not to use obsolete version of R and try R-patched or R-devel.

To be honest - in R-patched (3.1.2)

setInternet2(TRUE)
utils:::menuInstallPkgs()

works without problems and the same applies to R-devel version from June (3.2.0 - 66175) but it throws error in (3.2.0 - 67792).

There is 15814 bug report about Package Installation which is replied by Brian Ripley:

The 'package installer' is the program which installs the Apple package.  If you mean the 'Package Installer' menu item in R.app, there is a known issue (but that is only known to causes failures, not freezes).

I tried Richard's suggestion (thanks Richard) and with small modification (I do not want to install from sources)

install.packages("ggplot2", repos="http://cran.at.r-project.org", dependencies=TRUE)

works as expected, therefore the problem is in **menu driven installation procedure**. Shall I fill a bug report? Or it is already known to R developers?

Best regards
Petr

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Newmiller [mailto:jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 6:15 PM
> To: PIKAL Petr; r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] problems with packages installation
>
> Time to (re)read the Posting Guide... questions about unreleased
> versions of R are off topic here. Go to R-devel.
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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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