Cannot install fgeo.misc

[jess-shue]

When attempting to load fgeo.misc using devtools, I receive the following error. Is there a way to redirect to the correct URL?

devtools::install_github("forestgeo/fgeo.misc")

Error: Failed to install 'fgeo.misc' from GitHub:
(converted from warning) unable to access index for repository https://forestgeo.github.io/drat/src/contrib:
cannot open URL 'https://forestgeo.github.io/drat/src/contrib/PACKAGES'

[maurolepore]

Hi Jess!

I suspect the repos option points to a repository no longer use.

Can you share the output of getOption("repos")? Here is mine:

getOption("repos")
#>                      CRAN                      RSPM 
#>    "http://package-proxy" "http://cran.rstudio.org"

^{Created on 2021-02-17 by the reprex package (v1.0.0)}

I suspect your output has 'https://forestgeo.github.io/drat/'. In any case, try setting repos to "http://cran.rstudio.org" then retry:

# What repos am I using
getOption("repos")
# Regardless, set repos to "http://cran.rstudio.org"
options(repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com/")
# Confirm
getOption("repos")

# Try again
devtools::install_github("forestgeo/fgeo.misc")

[jess-shue]

Hi Mauro,
You are correct, I was using the forestgeo.github repo:
getOption("repos")
CRAN forestgeo
#> "https://cran.rstudio.com/" "https://forestgeo.github.io/drat"

Thank you very much for the help! I can now install fgeo.misc.

[maurolepore]

It's possible that the old repo is configured in a file called ".Rprofile". You may access that file runing usethis::edit_r_profile() then delete "https://forestgeo.github.io/drat".