Joris MeysMay 22, 2024

Is there a problem with #Posit cran.rstudio.com repo? My students get all kinds of weird error messages (like MASS not being available for this version of R) or simply failing to connect. When switching to another mirror, everything works perfectly fine. What's going on?

#rstats #RStudio #CranR

Show threadRaptor's Nest (He/Him)May 22, 2024
@JorisMeys I don't know if it applies in this case, but many of my students last year encountered really weird behaviours from RStudio when there was a new version of the software available but they haven't updated their version yet.
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@drmambobob Thanks! We've ran into the same issues. I'm actually considering to move to VS Code, as they get that in programming (Python) as well.

In this case, MASS really seems to be not available for R 4.3.3. Checked in R itself, and got the same error message. So likely the problem lies at #CRANR itself. Maybe @eddelbuettel knows more?

May 22, 2024 at 9:23amWeb