[R] unable to download library

[Bert Gunter]

I would just like to confirm that, like David W. , I am on a Mac.

Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
and sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:00 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> On Dec 16, 2015, at 1:58 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>>
>> On 17/12/15 07:29, John Karon wrote:
>>> I am trying to download the “Formula” library using
>>> install.packages(“Formula”); I have had no problem downloading other
>>> libraries recently.  I receive the error message
>>>
>>> Warning: unable to access index for repository
>>> https://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.2 Warning
>>> message: package ‘Formula’ is not available (for R version 3.2.2)
>>>
>>> I receive the same message adding lib=<path> to the install.packages
>>> call.  An internet search suggests using download.file(), but that
>>> requires knowing the url of the file in the repository. Can someone
>>> tell me the url (just add Formula to the url above?) or suggest
>>> another solution?  Thanks.
>>
>> I installed "Formula" just now, under R 3.2.2, using install.packages(), with no problem. Did you have a *look* at the URL
>>
>>    https://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.2
>>
>> ???
>
> When I attempt to open that with Chrome I get an error:
>
> This webpage is not available
>
> DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
>
> Like Bert, I also get an error report when I attempt to us the Berkeley repo, but I do not get an error when I use the CRAN repo in Switzerland.
>
>
>>
>> Going there I see that the file Formula_1.2-1.zip is present and I was able to download it by clicking on it.
>
> Well, those of us using Macs would not choose the zip file.
>
>>
>> So if you insist on using download.file() you could just tack "/Formula_1.2-1.zip" onto the end of your URL.  But there is really no reason to do that; install.packages() works.
>
> Well it works for some people with some repos but not for all people with all repos. I have had problems since upgrading to R 3.2.3.
>
>
> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
> Running under: OS X 10.11.2 (El Capitan)
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] grDevices utils     datasets  stats     graphics  grid
> [7] methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
>  [1] maps_3.0.1      rms_4.4-0       SparseM_1.7     Hmisc_3.17-0
>  [5] ggplot2_1.0.1   Formula_1.2-1   survival_2.38-3 sos_1.3-8
>  [9] brew_1.0-6      lattice_0.20-33
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>  [1] Rcpp_0.12.2         RColorBrewer_1.1-2  plyr_1.8.3
>  [4] tools_3.2.3         rpart_4.1-10        digest_0.6.8
>  [7] polspline_1.1.12    gtable_0.1.2        nlme_3.1-122
> [10] Matrix_1.2-3        mvtnorm_1.0-3       proto_0.3-10
> [13] gridExtra_2.0.0     stringr_1.0.0       cluster_2.0.3
> [16] MatrixModels_0.4-1  nnet_7.3-11         foreign_0.8-66
> [19] multcomp_1.4-1      latticeExtra_0.6-26 TH.data_1.0-6
> [22] reshape2_1.4.1      magrittr_1.5        codetools_0.2-14
> [25] scales_0.3.0.9000   MASS_7.3-45         splines_3.2.3
> [28] colorspace_1.2-6    quantreg_5.19       sandwich_2.3-4
> [31] stringi_1.0-1       acepack_1.3-3.3     munsell_0.4.2
> [34] zoo_1.7-12
>
>
>>
>> It is a mystery what your problem could be,
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Rolf Turner
>>
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> David Winsemius
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>
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