[R] installing tikzDevices for R 3.2.3

[Yihui Xie]

Please do not use http://r-forge.r-project.org/ to install tikzDevice.
We no longer update tikzDevice on R-Forge. It may be a problem of your
CRAN mirror. When in doubt, try the RStudio mirror (the chance that
Amazon CloudFront is down should be much smaller than a single metal
server somewhere):

install.packages("tikzDevice", repos="https://cran.rstudio.com")
# make sure your version of R supports https

Regards,
Yihui
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On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Ranjan Maitra
<maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 21:25:06 -0600 Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to install tikzDevices on a installation of R (3.2.3) on a new machine. However, I am getting:
>>
>> > install.packages('tikzDevices')
>>
>> Warning message:
>> package ‘tikzDevices’ is not available (for R version 3.2.3)
>>
>> Is there any way out for me other than wait for the tikzDevices to be updated in the repos? I am on Fedora 23 with everything up to date.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for any suggestions and best wishes,
>> Ranjan
>
>
> Sorry to answer my own question, but I found a way out (only specific to tikzDevices):
>
> install.packages("tikzDevice", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
>
> It would be nice to have a general approach, especially when R updated does not mostly mean that packages installed under and earlier version of R stop working.
>
> Best wiehes,
> Ranjan
>
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