Antwort: Re: packrat: Failed to download current version of foreign(0.8-67)

Hi Mr. Ligges,

doing as you said R responds with

install.packages("foreign")
trying URL
'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/foreign_0.8-67.zip'
Warning in install.packages :
  cannot open URL
'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/foreign_0.8-67.zip':
HTTP status was '403 Forbidden (Content blocked by Trustwave Secure Web
Gateway)'
Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
  cannot open URL
'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/foreign_0.8-67.zip'
Warning in install.packages :
  download of package ?foreign? failed

Running

install.packages("foreign", type = "source")
trying URL
'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/src/contrib/foreign_0.8-67.tar.gz'
Warning in install.packages :
  cannot open URL
'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/src/contrib/foreign_0.8-67.tar.gz': HTTP
status was '403 Forbidden (Content blocked by Trustwave Secure Web
Gateway)'
Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
  cannot open URL
'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/src/contrib/foreign_0.8-67.tar.gz'
Warning in install.packages :
  download of package ?foreign? failed

The firewall in my company blocks all binary files. Foreign is downloaded
in "wb" mode. Thus I have no chance to get it. The first fresh
installation was done from an external drive. As packrat is also
downloading the binaries instead of the source my download will always
fail.

My sessionInfo() is
sessionInfo()
R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
[7] base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.3.2

Do have a suggestion?

Kind regards

Georg





Von:    Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
An:     G.Maubach at weinwolf.de, r-help at r-project.org,
Datum:  20.02.2017 21:29
Betreff:        Re: [R] packrat: Failed to download current version of
foreign(0.8-67)



foreign is a recommended package that is already part of your R
installation. and there shoudl not be a problem to install a recent
version of it.

What is the error message of you run
install.packages("foreign") from a new R session?

Best,
Uwe Ligges



On 20.02.2017 17:33, G.Maubach at weinwolf.de wrote:

Hi All,

I tried to use packrat on

R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
[7] base

other attached packages:
[1] packrat_0.4.8-1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.3.2

Due to internal firewall restrictions the package "foreign" could not be
downloaded as source. I assume that the package also contains some

binary

parts which will be blocked by the firewall.

When running packrat a directory "packrat" and a file called .Rprofile
were created in the project directory. A lot of library sources were
download, but not for "foreign".

After finishing the process the directory "packrat" and the file

.Rprofile

were deleted from the project directory.

Why is that? Just one source library missing and the whole directory is
gone? Having all libraries for my project without just one is better

than

none!

How can I use packrat with the missing library "foreign"?

Kind regards

Georg