Hi there, I have this git repo for an R project: [image] ambujtewari/stats306-winter2020 Material for STATS 306 (Winter 2020) course at University of Michigan - ambujtewari/stats306-winter2020 I am using a combination of ‘runtime.txt’ and ‘install.R’ to set u…

We recently added a new way to install R packages and RStudio to repo2docker (the tool doing the image building). It uses conda-forge instead of MRAN. Might be worth trying out while MRAN is unavailable. An example on how to do this is in https://github.com/betatim/r-conda . The basic pattern is to …

Welcome to the forum! Unfortunately this is a recurring issue with MRAN :frowning:. You can see some discussion on Alternative to MRAN opened 06:12AM - 04 Sep 19 UTC (UTC) [betatim] betatim …

Thanks a lot @manics ! Even though there is no good solution to this MRAN issue, it is still useful to learn that this issue isn’t specific to me.

Thanks you @betatim for the suggestion to use conda-forge instead of MRAN. MRAN is back for now. But I will give your suggestion a try and report back my experience.

It seems that MRAN is still down. I tried your suggestion and it works. Now, why MRAN still seems to be an option if it is constantly down, should we just stick to conda-forge?

I tried the conda-forge approach and it works like a charm! Thanks @betatim ! The only (small) issue was that the package dslabs was not found. On CRAN, it appeared on 13 December 2019. So it is a very new package. I had no problems whatsoever with older, stable packages.

Glad to hear that it worked well :slight_smile: Not every R package is on conda-forge yet. However it should not be super difficult to add a new one and everyone can do it (no special permission needed), even if you aren’t the package author ( https://conda-forge.org/#add_recipe ).

R packages in 'install.R' fail to load - MRAN down?

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Welcome to the forum!
Unfortunately this is a recurring issue with MRAN . You can see some discussion on

but no-one’s yet come up with a good solution.

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