[R-SIG-Mac] istate CRAN mirror not working - unable to use .Rprofile to change

[Duncan Murdoch]

If you are using R.app, you can also set the mirror in the Preferences 
menu.  Perhaps this setting overrides the .Rprofile setting.

Duncan Murdoch

On 08/06/2017 5:05 AM, Michael Hall wrote:
> I started getting errors installing packages using my default repository instate…
>
> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/src/contrib:
>   cannot open URL 'http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.4:
>   cannot open URL 'http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.4/PACKAGES'
> Warning message:
> package ‘RWeka’ is not available (for R version 3.4.0)
>
> Googling, I was able to do this using a different mirror selected with chooseCRANmirror(), I chose Kansas.
>
> I googled how to make this the new default and was pointed to .Rprofile.
> This doesn’t seem able to do this, with…
>
> message(".Rprofile")
> local({r <- getOption("repos")
>       r["CRAN"] <- "https://rweb.crmda.ku.edu/cran"
>       options(repos=r)})
>
> I get…
>
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
> .Rprofile
> [R.app GUI 1.70 (7338) x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0]
>
> [History restored from /Users/mjh/.Rapp.history]
>
> Which shows the “.Rprofile” message indicating it has run.
> However…
>
>> r <- getOption("repos")
>> r
>                                     CRAN
> "http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN"
>
> Still shows iastate.
> Then doing…
>
>> source(".Rprofile")
> .Rprofile
>> r <- getOption("repos")
>> r
>                             CRAN
> "https://rweb.crmda.ku.edu/cran”
>
> so the .Rprofile does work. R must be changing it to iastate after the profile is run?
> I had googled a mailing list thread where it was said .Rprofile wasn’t working on OS X. It was suggested in there that this be posted to this list. I checked the archives for the last couple months but didn’t see any mention.
>
> Is this a problem that needs addressing? Or has a workaround besides sourcing .Rprofile whenever I want to install packages?
>
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