I had to install/use an older version of (R-3.0.3) for a reason. While installing a package from CRAN (either in RStudio or R), I received the following warning message saying unable to access index for repository http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0. See message below. In this case, I tried to install "aod". The install nevertheless went through, as confirmed by the library statement (I did not try to use it). Any idea? Thank you. ==== Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 > install.packages("aod") Warning in install.packages : unable to access index for repository http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 Warning in install.packages : unable to access index for repository http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 package ?aod? is available as a source package but not as a binary Warning in install.packages : package ?aod? is not available (for R version 3.0.3) > library(aod) [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
From ../ReadMe in the mentioned web resource: "Packages for R >= 1.7.0 and R < 3.2.0 are available from https://cran-archive.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/" We do not hold binaries of several year old versions of R on CRAN. Note that R 3.0.0 is 7 years old. You shoudl realy consider to update to 4.0.2. Best, Uwe Ligges On 05.10.2020 09:56, Steven Yen wrote:> I had to install/use an older version of (R-3.0.3) for a reason. While > installing a package from CRAN (either in RStudio or R), I received the > following warning message saying unable to access index for repository > http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0. See message below. In > this case, I tried to install "aod". The install nevertheless went > through, as confirmed by the library statement (I did not try to use > it). Any idea? Thank you. > > ====> > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 Warning: unable to > access index for repository > http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 > > install.packages("aod") Warning in install.packages : unable to access > index for repository http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 > Warning in install.packages : unable to access index for repository > http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 package ?aod? is > available as a source package but not as a binary Warning in > install.packages : package ?aod? is not available (for R version 3.0.3) > > library(aod) > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >
Thanks for the help. I do update to the latest R-4.0.2. As I said, for reasons that's hard to explain, some of my tasks are better handled with an older version of R, in this case R-3.0.3. Please just help me install packages successfully with this older version of R. I ran the following line but obviously was not getting it across. ====> install.packages("aod",repos='https://cran-archive.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/') Warning in install.packages : unable to access index for repositoryhttp://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 Warning in install.packages : unable to access index for repository https://cran-archive.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 Warning in install.packages : package ?aod? is not available (for R version 3.0.3) On 2020/10/5 ?? 04:12, Uwe Ligges wrote:> From > > ../ReadMe > in the mentioned web resource: > > "Packages for R >= 1.7.0 and R < 3.2.0 are available from > https://cran-archive.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/" > > We do not hold binaries of several year old versions of R on CRAN. > > Note that R 3.0.0 is 7 years old. You shoudl realy consider to update > to 4.0.2. > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > > > On 05.10.2020 09:56, Steven Yen wrote: >> I had to install/use an older version of (R-3.0.3) for a reason. While >> installing a package from CRAN (either in RStudio or R), I received the >> following warning message saying unable to access index for repository >> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0. See message below. In >> this case, I tried to install "aod". The install nevertheless went >> through, as confirmed by the library statement (I did not try to use >> it). Any idea? Thank you. >> >> ====>> >> Warning: unable to access index for repository >> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 Warning: unable to >> access index for repository >> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 > >> install.packages("aod") Warning in install.packages : unable to access >> index for repository http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 >> Warning in install.packages : unable to access index for repository >> http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.0 package ?aod? is >> available as a source package but not as a binary Warning in >> install.packages : package ?aod? is not available (for R version 3.0.3) >> ? > library(aod) >> >> >> ????[[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>[[alternative HTML version deleted]]