[R] installing tikzDevice for R 3.2.3

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com>
>>>>>     on Fri, 15 Jan 2016 23:46:19 -0600 writes:

    > Yihui, Thanks very much! Explicitly specifying the RStudio
    > server works, and I have reinstalled tikzDevice

    > Best wishes, Ranjan

Good,  and thanks to Yihui indeed!

One note:  The  "cloud" CRAN server is nowadays reachable as

    https://cloud.r-project.org

and that is now the preferred URL.  Rstudio is currently still
paying the service -> Thank you JJ and Rstudio staff! -- but
that may not have to remain so, and the  R Foundation and R Core team
are much happier to have a generic

    https://cloud.r-project.org   as "default CRAN mirror".

Martin Maechler
(as 'Secreatry General' of the R Foundation)

    > On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 22:42:41 -0600 Yihui Xie
    > <xie at yihui.name> wrote:

    >> 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
    >> --
    >> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com> Web: http://yihui.name
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 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