Re: [R] packrat: Failed to download current version of foreign(0.8-67)

foreign is a recommended package that is already part of your R installation. and there shoudl not be a problem to install a recent version of it. What is the error message of you run install.packages("foreign") from a new R session? Best, Uwe Ligges On 20.02.2017 17:33, g.maub...@weinwolf.

[R] packrat: Failed to download current version of foreign(0.8-67)

Hi All, I tried to use packrat on R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5