Message-ID: <ae4cbfad-dc16-cb31-b8ac-7fbe669b2127@gmail.com>
Date: 2017-06-08T10:53:24Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: istate CRAN mirror not working - unable to use .Rprofile to change
In-Reply-To: <B80434D1-73C9-433C-ACF1-BBE0F45D08D6@gmail.com>
If you are using R.app, you can also set the mirror in the Preferences
menu. Perhaps this setting overrides the .Rprofile setting.
Duncan Murdoch
On 08/06/2017 5:05 AM, Michael Hall wrote:
> I started getting errors installing packages using my default repository instate?
>
> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/src/contrib:
> cannot open URL 'http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.4:
> cannot open URL 'http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.4/PACKAGES'
> Warning message:
> package ?RWeka? is not available (for R version 3.4.0)
>
> Googling, I was able to do this using a different mirror selected with chooseCRANmirror(), I chose Kansas.
>
> I googled how to make this the new default and was pointed to .Rprofile.
> This doesn?t seem able to do this, with?
>
> message(".Rprofile")
> local({r <- getOption("repos")
> r["CRAN"] <- "https://rweb.crmda.ku.edu/cran"
> options(repos=r)})
>
> I get?
>
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
> .Rprofile
> [R.app GUI 1.70 (7338) x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0]
>
> [History restored from /Users/mjh/.Rapp.history]
>
> Which shows the ?.Rprofile? message indicating it has run.
> However?
>
>> r <- getOption("repos")
>> r
> CRAN
> "http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN"
>
> Still shows iastate.
> Then doing?
>
>> source(".Rprofile")
> .Rprofile
>> r <- getOption("repos")
>> r
> CRAN
> "https://rweb.crmda.ku.edu/cran?
>
> so the .Rprofile does work. R must be changing it to iastate after the profile is run?
> I had googled a mailing list thread where it was said .Rprofile wasn?t working on OS X. It was suggested in there that this be posted to this list. I checked the archives for the last couple months but didn?t see any mention.
>
> Is this a problem that needs addressing? Or has a workaround besides sourcing .Rprofile whenever I want to install packages?
>
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