How to install package when HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
Solution 1
Seems that repository at http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk is messed up. There is fields_6.9.1.tgz (you could check it by going to http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/fields_6.9.1.tgz), but in PACKAGES
file (which is used by install.packages
to find url of package) there is:
Package: fields Version: 7.1 Title: Tools for spatial data Depends: R (>= 3.0), methods, spam, maps Built: R 3.1.0; x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0; 2014-05-20 04:58:37 UTC; unix Archs: fields.so.dSYM
That is why you got 404 error.
If you want to install by hand you need to either download file and install from local file or use
# cran got 7.1
packageurl <- "http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/fields_7.1.tgz"
# your mirror got 6.9.1
packageurl <- "http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/fields_6.9.1.tgz"
library(devtools)
install_url(packageurl)
I think this is temporary problem and in some point in time proper file will show up.
Now you can do it with base R:
CHANGES IN R 3.1.1
NEW FEATURES
- install.packages(repos = NULL) now accepts http:// or ftp:// URLs of package archives as well as file paths, and will download as required. In most cases repos = NULL can be deduced from the extension of the URL.
Solution 2
I had this issue after installing R 3.4.0 for Win 10, 64-bit. Was unable to resolve it, so I rolled back to 3.3.3 and now it works fine again.
Before doing this, I tried deleting the RStudio user settings and the R package library (if the problem was caused by a broken package).
Solution 3
I had the same issue when updated to R 3.4.1 on mac Sierra. The problem fixed when I changed the CRAN mirror in the preferences/packages
user1320502
Updated on June 12, 2022Comments
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user1320502 almost 2 years
I am having a rather tough time with the fields package.
sessioninfo() R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 (64-bit) locale: [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
form the url everything seems to be fine and
fields
depends on > or = to 3.0I have tried downloading the package with
install.packages
but I get a rather strange result i have not seen before:trying URL 'http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/fields_7.1.tgz' Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : cannot open URL 'http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/fields_7.1.tgz' In addition: Warning message: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found' Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, : download of package ‘fields’ failed
I have also tried downloading using the url for the files directly for both
7.1
and6.9.1(mavericks)
:packageurl <- "http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/fields_6.9.1.tgz" > install.packages(packageurl, contriburl=NULL, type="source") Warning message: package ‘http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/fields_6.9.1.tgz’ is not available (for R version 3.1.0) > packageurl <- "http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/contrib/3.1/fields_7.1.tgz" > install.packages(packageurl, contriburl=NULL, type="source") Warning message: package ‘http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/contrib/3.1/fields_7.1.tgz’ is not available (for R version 3.1.0)
and running all the
.R
files from the unpacked.tar
filesapply(list.files(pattern="[.]R$", path="........fields/R/", full.names=TRUE), source)
but if I do this then functions do not work e.g.
> rdist(c(1,1)) Error in .Fortran("radbas", PACKAGE = "fields", nd = as.integer(d), x1 = as.double(x1), : "radbas" not available for .Fortran() for package "fields"
QUESTION - This seems weird that fields is not available for R 3.1 as it is an intensely used package by many, any ideas on solving this?
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Marek almost 10 years@user1320502 Thank Hadley for that :D There is lot of cool stuff in that package.
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JACKY88 about 7 yearsI have the same problem but it seems the packages can still be installed even though this warning message shows up.
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jb123 about 7 yearsI have this problem, too, but installing the package with R instead of RStudio still works.
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Seanosapien almost 7 yearsI had this same issue with a Windows OS recently. I just used R instead of R Studio to install Rcpp and everything was fine too.
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Djork almost 7 years@jb123 solution above of installing with R instead of RStudio also worked for me in MacOS (Sierra)