Thanks for the reply, Marc.
On 03/11/15 12:09, Marc Schwartz wrote:
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Rolf,
What do:
getOption("CRAN")
getOption("repos")
show?
The first shows "NULL", the second shows
"http://cran.stat.auckland.ac.nz";
Is there any chance that you have something set in ~/.Rprofile
pertaining to CRAN mirrors or are loading some packages that might conflict?
Indeed. I have "repos" set (as seen above) in my .Rprofile.
I would try it with a vanilla R session (e.g. 'R --vanilla').
I had already tried "R --vanilla" and got the same effect. I.e. I got
the same error from chooseCRANmirror() but nevertheless the menu
appeared, just as before.
This time, at your prompting, I tried to install a package under
"R --vanilla":
install.packages("circular",lib="/home/rolf/Rlib")
I got the following warning message(s):
Warning: unable to access index for repository
https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib
Warning message:
package ‘circular’ is not available (for R version 3.2.2)
(That last warning is certainly not true.)
Note that this was *after* having chosen the Austria mirror from the
menu presented by chooseCRANmirror().
Before running chooseCRANmirror(), getOption("repos") produced:
CRAN
"@CRAN@"
After running chooseCRANmirror(), getOption("repos") produced:
CRAN
"https://cran.r-project.org";
If it works then, there is something getting loaded or set at session
start that may be conflicting.
Well, it *doesn't* work, so setting "repos" in my .Rprofile was not the
problem, or at least not the essence of the problem.
Any other ideas? Ta.
cheers,
Rolf
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