error in INLA install

[J. Alex Baecher]

Hello all, 

I've recently updated R/Rstudio (R v.4.1.0, Rstudio v.1.4.1717), and I'm getting an error when attempting to install INLA through Rstudio:

> install.packages("INLA", repos=c(getOption("repos"), INLA="inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable"), dep=TRUE) 

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/jbaec/Documents/R/win-library/4.1’

(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

installing the source package ‘INLA’

trying URL 'inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable/src/contrib/INLA_21.02.23.tar.gz'

 length 169857085 bytes (162.0 MB)

downloaded 21.6 MB

Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : 

  download from 'inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable/src/contrib/INLA_21.02.23.tar.gz' failed

So, I also tried the testing version: 

> install.packages("INLA",repos=c(getOption("repos"),INLA="https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/testing"), dep=TRUE)

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/jbaec/Documents/R/win-library/4.1’

(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

trying URL 'https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/testing/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/INLA_21.06.11.zip'

 length 96560139 bytes (92.1 MB)

downloaded 18.0 MB

Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : 

  download from 'https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/testing/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/INLA_21.06.11.zip' failed

Could anyone advise? 

Best, 

-Alex B. 

[Finn Lindgren]

Hi,

this looks very much like the usual R download timeout setting, although usually it specifically mentions the timeout issue. Since it downloaded 18 out of 92 MB, it clearly found some file to download, so it may be that issue. Try changing the timeout setting in R with

  options(timeout=600)

to increase the timeout from the default 60 seconds to 10 minutes.

Finn

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[J. Alex Baecher]

Dr. Lindgren, 

Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. Clearly my issue was related to the timeout time--I appreciate your insight. Although, after setting the timeout = 10000, the download still stalled at about 50%... Rather than continuing to increase the timeout time,  I manually downloaded the stable version from https://inla.r-inla-download.org/ and extracted it into my R library, which appears to be working just fine (not sure if this will hold up). 

All the best, 

-Alex.

[Finn Lindgren]

Hi,

the proper way to install a manually downloaded package is still using install.packages. Just set the repos argument to NULL to help it understand you're installing from a local file; something like

install.packages("thelocalfilename", repos = NULL)

(although I'm not sure about installing the dependencies in that case).

Finn

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Dr. Lingren,

 

Thank you for that information! Using your instructions, I was able to properly install from the manually downloaded file.

 

Best,

 

-Alex.

[Helpdesk]

I guess this a timeout issue, as R by default have 60 seconds. just set
it higher, like

options(timeout=300)

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