[R-SIG-Mac] devtools problem on MacOS 10.14.6

[Simon Urbanek]

Tim.,

The mirror you are using seems to be broken. Please use that main CRAN server or another mirror that works.

Cheers,
Simon



> On Feb 25, 2021, at 07:48, Tim Dickinson <tim.dickinson using utoronto.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi--- I would like to install the new package lcvplants (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00702-z.pdf, https://idiv-biodiversity.github.io/lcvplants/articles/taxonomic_resolution_using_lcplants.html) and need to use devtools to do so.
> 
> I don't seem to be able to install devtools:
> 
> R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10) -- "Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out"
> Copyright (C) 2020 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
> 
> > install.packages("devtools")
> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/src/contrib:
>   cannot open URL 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/bin/macosx/contrib/4.0:
>   cannot open URL 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/bin/macosx/contrib/4.0/PACKAGES'
> Warning message:
> package ‘devtools’ is not available for this version of R
> 
> A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere,
> see the ideas at
> https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages 
> >
> 
> and same result after updating...
> R version 4.0.4 (2021-02-15) -- "Lost Library Book"
> Copyright (C) 2021 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
> 
> My thanks to anyone who can suggest a way forward!
> 
> ---tad.
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