{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rocker-org/rocker-versioned/issues/14","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rocker-org/rocker-versioned","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rocker-org/rocker-versioned/issues/14/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rocker-org/rocker-versioned/issues/14/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rocker-org/rocker-versioned/issues/14/events","html_url":"https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker-versioned/issues/14","id":198176695,"number":14,"title":"install.packages doesn't work with default settings with r-ver:3.1.0","user":{"login":"jackwasey","id":7832270,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7832270?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jackwasey","html_url":"https://github.com/jackwasey","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jackwasey/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jackwasey/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jackwasey/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jackwasey/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jackwasey/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jackwasey/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jackwasey/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jackwasey/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jackwasey/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-12-30T17:58:13Z","updated_at":"2016-12-31T00:51:20Z","closed_at":null,"body":"It seems that the default repo uses MRAN. This stops even `docopt` working which some of the `littler` seem to rely on.\r\n\r\nIt seems I can simply use:\r\n`install.packages(\"docopt\", repos = \"http://cran.rstudio.com\")`\r\n\r\n(not `https` for that R version!)\r\n\r\nThe default error message from R (no blame being apportioned here) simply says that the requested package is not available for R 3.1.0, which is not true in general, just true for the default MRAN repo.\r\n\r\nI am not capable of quickly telling with MRAN is screwed up, whether the current behavior is intended (simulating a time warp, rather than simply an old version of R), or whether I have a local configuration problem. I did just pull the rocker/r-ver:3.1.0 image, so I think the latter is less likely.\r\n\r\nThanks for making this valuable image available. Many institutions seem stuck on ancient versions of R, and this is pretty much the only way I will be able to support them using my packages, and accurately write `R >= 3.1.0` in my `DESCRIPTION`"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rocker-org/rocker-versioned/issues/comments/269840099","html_url":"https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker-versioned/issues/14#issuecomment-269840099","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rocker-org/rocker-versioned/issues/14","id":269840099,"user":{"login":"cboettig","id":222586,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/222586?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/cboettig","html_url":"https://github.com/cboettig","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cboettig/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cboettig/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cboettig/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cboettig/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cboettig/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cboettig/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cboettig/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cboettig/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cboettig/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-12-31T00:51:20Z","updated_at":"2016-12-31T00:51:20Z","body":"`r-ver:3.1.0` is failing to install `docopt` from MRAN because the MRAN url is also `https`, if you switch it to `http` manually it will install fine, just as it does from current CRAN.  (Note that I believe while `docopt` is that first MRAN snapshot, `littler` wasn't yet on CRAN so you'll have to grab it from current CRAN or a later snapshot.  Some of `littler` may also need a more recent version of `docopt` than the 2014; e.g. if specifying multiple repos on `install2.r`)\r\n\r\nAnyway, since https support wasn't automatically included in R builds in 3.1.0, I guess I should patch that image to enable https."}}
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