trouble installing version 2.5 of rstan

[karl.j....@gmail.com]

Hello:

 

1. First, thank you for developing stan --- it's making a big difference in my work.

 

2. I'm upgrading from version 2.3 to version 2.5, using the instructions "RStan Getting Started". The installation goes well until I get the following

 

Attaching package: ‘Rcpp’

The following object is masked from ‘package:inline’:

    registerPlugin

cygwin warning:
  MS-DOS style path detected: C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.2/etc/x64/Makeconf
  Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.2/etc/x64/Makeconf
  CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning.
  Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
    http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
Warning in install.packages :
  InternetOpenUrl failed: 'The operation timed out'
Warning in install.packages :
  InternetOpenUrl failed: 'The operation timed out'
Warning in install.packages :
  unable to access index for repository http://rstan.org/repo/bin/windows/contrib/3.0
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/ellefsen/Documents/R/win-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  InternetOpenUrl failed: 'The operation timed out'
Warning in install.packages :
  InternetOpenUrl failed: 'The operation timed out'
Warning in install.packages :
  unable to access index for repository http://rstan.org/repo/src/contrib
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘rstan’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2)

 Show Traceback
 
 Rerun with Debug
 
Error in library(rstan) : there is no package called ‘rstan’
 

In addition: Warning message:
package ‘inline’ was built under R version 3.0.3 

If I understand correctly, the problem is with the following code from function "install_rstan":

options(repos = c(getOption("repos"), rstan = "http://rstan.org/repo/"))

install.packages("rstan", type = 'source')

That is, function install.packages is unable to find http://rstan.org/repo/. As requested, here is the session info:

R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

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

other attached packages:
[1] Rcpp_0.11.3   inline_0.3.13

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.0.2

3. Thank you for your help.

 

Karl Ellefsen 

[Ben Goodrich]

Warning in install.packages :
  InternetOpenUrl failed: 'The operation timed out'

It looks as if there was a (hopefully temporary) network outage. Can you successfully install BH and RcppEigen from CRAN?

Ben

[karl.j....@gmail.com]

Hello:

 

Q: Can you successfully install BH and RcppEigen from CRAN?
A: Yes.

 

I cannot connect to http://rstan.org/repo --- I have been unable to connect on Wednesday, Thursday, and now Friday.

 

Karl Ellefsen

 

 

 

[Ben Goodrich]

Maybe a change in policy with your firewall? If you can download
http://rstan.org/repo/src/contrib/rstan_2.5.0.tar.gz
with a web browser, you can then install rstan via R CMD INSTALL rstan_2.5.0.tar.gz

[karl.j....@gmail.com]

I tried a variety of different methods of accessing http://rstan.org/repo/src/contrib/rstan_2.5.0.tar.gz as well as http://rstan.org. This internet address is not accessible from my computer. I don't believe that the firewall is the problem, because it has never affected my access to other internet sites.

 

Karl Ellefsen

[Jiqiang Guo]

I cannot think of any reason that the server cannot be accessed but something weird on the user end.  If you visit http://rstan.org, will it say "403 Forbidden,...". 

Jiqiang 

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[Bob Carpenter]

I had no problem getting this:

> ... http://rstan.org/repo/src/contrib/rstan_2.5.0.tar.gz ...

although the top-level directory gives me a 403 message:

> ... http://rstan.org ...

- Bob

[karl.j....@gmail.com]

During lunchtime I went to the public library, because the library network is separate from my work network. I was able to download the tar file http://rstan.org/repo/src/contrib/rstan_2.5.0.tar.gz, but http://rstan.org and http://srtan.org/repo gave me the forbidden message (403?). These results are consistent with Bob Carpenter's results.

 

Now that I'm back at work, I tested http://rstan.org/repo/src/contrib/rstan_2.5.0.tar.gz and http://rstan.org/repo again. Both times I get "This page can't be displayed," which, I guess, is equivalent to the 403 message.

[Jiqiang Guo]

Only the availability of http://rstan.org/repo/src/contrib/rstan_2.5.0.tar.gz is necessary.   Nothing is at rstan.org and rstan.org/repo. 

In addition, rstan_2.5.0.tar.gz is also at https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/releases/download/v2.5.0/rstan_2.5.0.tar.gz

Jiqiang 

[karl.j....@gmail.com]

I downloaded the package from https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/releases/download/v2.5.0/rstan_2.5.0.tar.gz, I installed it with

path\R.exe CMD INSTALL rstan_2.5.0.tar.gz, and I tested the installation. Everything is fine. Thank you for your help.

 

Keep up the great work! stan is very helpful to many people.

 

Karl Ellefsen