Who said that RCurl::getURL worked with install.packages?
(At least, I assume this is from RCurl: you did not mention it.)
install.packages() first calls available.packages(), and that uses
download.file to get the PACKAGES[.gz] file. It then calls
download.file to get the packages.
So please read the help for download.file (as the help pages say), and
try the solutions described there.
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Stefan Petersson wrote:
<stefan.petersson <at> inizio.se> writes:
Hi,
I've set up a very simple R repository. Just a single source
library. Everything works fine. I can install the package on my client
using:
install.packages(repos='http://www.myServer.se/myRepo/',
pkgs='myLib', dep=TRUE)
However, I want to protect the repo, so I use a
.htaccess, placed directly under 'myRepo' on the server. I use
'Authentication Basic' and 'require valid-user'.
I've tried a few
things. From the
obvious:
*None* of this is 'obvious', and none of it is reproducible.
install.packages(repos=getURL('http://www.myServer.se/myRepo',
userpwd='user:password'), pkgs='myLib', dep=TRUE)
To the more
elaborate:
h
[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
I add this myself, since some strange 'alternative HTML version deleted' thingy
cut my post short. Here is the rest:
To the more elaborate:
h <- getCurlHandle(header = TRUE,
userpwd = "user:password",
netrc = TRUE,
followlocation = TRUE
)
install.packages(getURL("http://www.myServer.se/myRepo/";,
verbose = TRUE,
curl = h
),
pkgs='myLib',
dep=TRUE
)
But it's not working. The last call is complaining of a missing index.html. And
if I put one under myRepo, I get connected to that page, but install.packages
can't go further to the src directory on the server. This is what I get:
Installing package(s) into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning: unable to access index for repository HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:20:25 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://www.myServer.se/myRepo/
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 235
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:20:25 GMT
Server: Apache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 208
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Forbidden</h1>
<p>You don't have permission to access /smisc/
on this server.</p>
</body></html>
/src/contrib
Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
package ‘smisc’ is not available (for R version 2.13.1)
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