RStan installation problem on Windows

[Daniel Lee]

Any suggestions?

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From: "Jared Lander" <jared...@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 15, 2015 11:54 AM
Subject: Stan on Windows
To: "Andrew Gelman" <gel...@stat.columbia.edu>, "Bob Carpenter" <ca...@alias-i.com>, "Daniel Lee" <bea...@alum.mit.edu>
Cc:

> Hey guys,
> I'm having trouble installing RStan on Windows 8.1 and if I'm stuck I imagine other users will have trouble too.
>
> The issue seems to be connecting to the RStan repo as I get the following issues.
>
> Warning in install.packages :
>   InternetOpenUrl failed: 'A connection with the server could not be established'
> Warning in install.packages :
>   InternetOpenUrl failed: 'A connection with the server could not be established'
> Warning in install.packages :
>   unable to access index for repository http://rstan.org/repo/src/contrib
> Warning in install.packages :
>   InternetOpenUrl failed: 'A connection with the server could not be established'
> Warning in install.packages :
>   InternetOpenUrl failed: 'A connection with the server could not be established'
> 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 3.2.1)
>
> So is it possible to wget the tar and then install from disk?
>
> Alternatively I tried devtools::install_github and that did not work (plus the build is currently failing Travis-CI).
>
> Something tells me these issues will crop up on Sunday so good to sort through them now.
>
> Jared Lander
>
> Best Selling Book: R for Everyone

[Ben Goodrich]

On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 12:46:29 PM UTC-4, Daniel Lee wrote:

Any suggestions?

More reliable hosting? Although we shouldn't need to rely on it to be a package repository much longer.

Ben