[R] What happened to Canada?

[Rolf Turner]

Thanks for the reply, Marc.

On 03/11/15 12:09, Marc Schwartz wrote:

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>
> Rolf,
>
> What do:
>
>    getOption("CRAN")
>
>    getOption("repos")
>
> show?

The first shows "NULL", the second shows

> "http://cran.stat.auckland.ac.nz"

> Is there any chance that you have something set in ~/.Rprofile
> pertaining to CRAN mirrors or are loading some packages that might conflict?

Indeed.  I have "repos" set (as seen above) in my .Rprofile.

> I would try it with a vanilla R session (e.g. 'R --vanilla').

I had already tried "R --vanilla" and got the same effect.  I.e. I got 
the same error from chooseCRANmirror() but nevertheless the menu 
appeared, just as before.

This time, at your prompting, I tried to install a package under
"R --vanilla":

> install.packages("circular",lib="/home/rolf/Rlib")

I got the following warning message(s):

> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib
> Warning message:
> package ‘circular’ is not available (for R version 3.2.2)

(That last warning is certainly not true.)

Note that this was *after* having chosen the Austria mirror from the 
menu presented by chooseCRANmirror().

Before running chooseCRANmirror(), getOption("repos") produced:

>     CRAN
> "@CRAN@"

After running chooseCRANmirror(), getOption("repos") produced:

>                         CRAN
> "https://cran.r-project.org"

> If it works then, there is something getting loaded or set at session
> start that may be conflicting.

Well, it *doesn't* work, so setting "repos" in my .Rprofile was not the 
problem, or at least not the essence of the problem.

Any other ideas?  Ta.

cheers,

Rolf

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