RRO on Windows: Old package versions

[Love Hansson]

Hi all,

Today (2014-11-12) I installed a freshly downloaded copy of RRO on a Windows 7 machine. It seems to work just fine with RStudio; however, when I try to install a package it seems that RRO is stuck on using an old package repository mirror on MRAN. For instance, installing dplyr gives the following result:

> install.packages("dplyr")

trying URL 'http://mran.revolutionanalytics.com/snapshot/2014-10-01/bin/windows/contrib/3.1/dplyr_0.2.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 2235535 bytes (2.1 Mb)
opened URL
downloaded 2.1 Mb

package ‘dplyr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
        C:\Users\lovhan\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpYLn4yq\downloaded_packages

So basically, I can only get RRO to install dplyr v0.2, although the latest version of dplyr on CRAN (and MRAN) is 0.3.0.2.

I've tried changing the CRAN mirror in the RStudio settings but to no avail. I'm guessing that I'm missing something fairly obvious here, so I'd be hioghly grateful for any hints on what i might be doing wrong.

Thanks in advance,
Love Hansson

[Andrie de Vries]

Thank you for trialing RRO.

Yes, this is a feature enabled by design.

RRO provides several features for reproducible research.  One element of this is to set the default CRAN mirror to an MRAN snapshot:

> getOption("repos")

                                                     CRAN 

"http://mran.revolutionanalytics.com/snapshot/2014-10-01" 

You can learn more about how this works, and how to override this behaviour, at http://mran.revolutionanalytics.com/documents/rro/enhanced/#repos

Regards

Andrie

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[Love Hansson]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick answer! I found all the infos I needed from the
link you sent.

Cheers,
Love

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[Josée Martens]

As of now, the information pertaining to the default CRAN mirror is now found here: http://mran.revolutionanalytics.com/open/#repos

Thank you!