[R] unable to access index for repository...

[Uwe Ligges]

Drop the RStudio repos.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

On 05.10.2020 11:10, Steven Yen wrote:
> Thanks. I did as suggested but still received a warning, though the 
> installation went through. Anything I could do to install without the 
> warning message.
> 
> What is the contrib.url argument?
> 
>  > install.packages("aod",repos='https://cran-archive.r-project.org')
> Warning in install.packages :
>    unable to access index for repository 
> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0
> trying URL 
> 'https://cran-archive.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/aod_1.3.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 225712 bytes (220 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 220 Kb
> 
> package ‘aod’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> 
> The downloaded binary packages are in
> C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp46p9a3\downloaded_packages
>  >
> 
> On 2020/10/5 下午 04:58, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>> Then you'd rather need
>>
>> install.packages("aod",repos='https://cran-archive.r-project.org')
>>
>> or use the contrib.url argument.
>>
>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>> On 05.10.2020 10:47, Steven Yen wrote:
>>> Thanks for the help. I do update to the latest R-4.0.2. As I said, 
>>> for reasons that's hard to explain, some of my tasks are better 
>>> handled with an older version of R, in this case R-3.0.3. Please just 
>>> help me install packages successfully with this older version of R.
>>>
>>> I ran the following line but obviously was not getting it across.
>>>
>>> =====
>>>
>>>> install.packages("aod",repos='https://cran-archive.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/') 
>>>> Warning in 
>>> install.packages : unable to access index for repository 
>>> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 Warning in 
>>> install.packages : unable to access index for repository 
>>> https://cran-archive.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 
>>> Warning in install.packages : package ‘aod’ is not available (for R 
>>> version 3.0.3)
>>>
>>> On 2020/10/5 下午 04:12, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>>> From
>>>>
>>>> ../ReadMe
>>>> in the mentioned web resource:
>>>>
>>>> "Packages for R >= 1.7.0 and R < 3.2.0 are available from
>>>> https://cran-archive.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/"
>>>>
>>>> We do not hold binaries of several year old versions of R on CRAN.
>>>>
>>>> Note that R 3.0.0 is 7 years old. You shoudl realy consider to 
>>>> update to 4.0.2.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 05.10.2020 09:56, Steven Yen wrote:
>>>>> I had to install/use an older version of (R-3.0.3) for a reason. While
>>>>> installing a package from CRAN (either in RStudio or R), I received 
>>>>> the
>>>>> following warning message saying unable to access index for repository
>>>>> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0. See message below. In
>>>>> this case, I tried to install "aod". The install nevertheless went
>>>>> through, as confirmed by the library statement (I did not try to use
>>>>> it). Any idea? Thank you.
>>>>>
>>>>> =====
>>>>>
>>>>> Warning: unable to access index for repository
>>>>> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 Warning: unable to
>>>>> access index for repository
>>>>> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 >
>>>>> install.packages("aod") Warning in install.packages : unable to access
>>>>> index for repository http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0
>>>>> Warning in install.packages : unable to access index for repository
>>>>> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 package ‘aod’ is
>>>>> available as a source package but not as a binary Warning in
>>>>> install.packages : package ‘aod’ is not available (for R version 
>>>>> 3.0.3)
>>>>>   > library(aod)
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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