r-lib/backports

Unable to install 1.1.9 from cran (windows)

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hol430 commented

Hi, windows builds on my CI server are unable to resolve a dependency on v1.1.9 of this package today - I get a 404 when trying to download binary version from cran:

Installing backports (1.1.9) ... 

Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : 

  cannot open URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/backports_1.1.9.zip'

Is this deliberate? I can't see a newer version on this cran, and this was working for me last week. I notice that some other cran repos do provide a 1.1.9 of this package (e.g.).

mllg commented

The binaries have either not been build yet or your mirror has not yet synced to the official cran repository. Try again later and stick with the previous version in the meantime or build from source.

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