[R] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: packrat: Failed to download current version of foreign(0.8-67)

[G.Maubach at weinwolf.de]

Packrat does a beautiful job, creating local project repositories of all 
used libraries. If only one library is missing the complete repository is 
not stored. Having all but one library in the repository is far better 
than having none.

I suggest to change the behaviour of packrat to store all libraries it can 
get in the directory "packrat" and not delete it if one library is 
missing. This would help a lot.

Is this possible?

Kind regards

Georg




Von:    Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
An:     G.Maubach at weinwolf.de, 
Kopie:  r-help at r-project.org
Datum:  21.02.2017 09:50
Betreff:        Re: Antwort: Re: [R] packrat: Failed to download current 
version of foreign(0.8-67)



Yes, then we cannot help and you have to ask your company how to get the 
files, of course.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



On 21.02.2017 08:16, G.Maubach at weinwolf.de wrote:
> Hi Mr. Ligges,
>
> doing as you said R responds with
>
> install.packages("foreign")
> trying URL
> 
'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/foreign_0.8-67.zip'
> Warning in install.packages :
>   cannot open URL
> 
'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/foreign_0.8-67.zip':
> HTTP status was '403 Forbidden (Content blocked by Trustwave Secure Web
> Gateway)'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   cannot open URL
> 
'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/foreign_0.8-67.zip'
> Warning in install.packages :
>   download of package ‘foreign’ failed
>
> Running
>
> install.packages("foreign", type = "source")
> trying URL
> 'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/src/contrib/foreign_0.8-67.tar.gz'
> Warning in install.packages :
>   cannot open URL
> 'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/src/contrib/foreign_0.8-67.tar.gz': HTTP
> status was '403 Forbidden (Content blocked by Trustwave Secure Web
> Gateway)'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   cannot open URL
> 'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/src/contrib/foreign_0.8-67.tar.gz'
> Warning in install.packages :
>   download of package ‘foreign’ failed
>
> The firewall in my company blocks all binary files. Foreign is 
downloaded
> in "wb" mode. Thus I have no chance to get it. The first fresh
> installation was done from an external drive. As packrat is also
> downloading the binaries instead of the source my download will always
> fail.
>
> My sessionInfo() is
> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> [7] base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.3.2
>
> Do have a suggestion?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Georg
>
>
>
>
>
> Von:    Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
> An:     G.Maubach at weinwolf.de, r-help at r-project.org,
> Datum:  20.02.2017 21:29
> Betreff:        Re: [R] packrat: Failed to download current version of
> foreign(0.8-67)
>
>
>
> foreign is a recommended package that is already part of your R
> installation. and there shoudl not be a problem to install a recent
> version of it.
>
> What is the error message of you run
> install.packages("foreign") from a new R session?
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
> On 20.02.2017 17:33, G.Maubach at weinwolf.de wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I tried to use packrat on
>>
>> R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252
>> [2] LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252
>> [3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252
>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>> [7] base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] packrat_0.4.8-1
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_3.3.2
>>
>> Due to internal firewall restrictions the package "foreign" could not 
be
>> downloaded as source. I assume that the package also contains some
> binary
>> parts which will be blocked by the firewall.
>>
>> When running packrat a directory "packrat" and a file called .Rprofile
>> were created in the project directory. A lot of library sources were
>> download, but not for "foreign".
>>
>> After finishing the process the directory "packrat" and the file
> .Rprofile
>> were deleted from the project directory.
>>
>> Why is that? Just one source library missing and the whole directory is
>> gone? Having all libraries for my project without just one is better
> than
>> none!
>>
>> How can I use packrat with the missing library "foreign"?
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Georg
>>
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