Message-ID: <22745.21978.217320.875223@max.eddelbuettel.com>
Date: 2017-03-27T18:11:38Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: R fails to read repo index on NGINX
In-Reply-To: <EDD04CD16EC1524FACF04CF343DAB49428692944@smmb1.rand.org>
On 27 March 2017 at 17:46, Roman, John wrote:
| im hosting a local cran repo on an NGINX server and it fails to pull the index at /src/contrib/
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| the layout of the index is different from apache, could this be disrupting R?
You mean when you look at the directory in a browser?
Should not matter. Use any command-line client (wget, curl, ...) or R's
download.file() to slurp down http://$MYSERVER/src/contrib/PACKAGES to
inspect, compare, ... -- and that is an absolute path so the index does not
matter.
Dirk
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