available.packages indicates that By default, the return value includes only packages whose version and OS requirements are met by the running version of R, and only gives information on the latest versions of packages.
So all repositories are consulted and then the result filtered to contain just the most recent version of each. Does it matter then what order the repositories are visited? Martin Morgan From: R-package-devel <r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of Greg Hunt <g...@firmansyah.com> Date: Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 7:35 AM To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> Cc: List r-package-devel <r-package-devel@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Order of repo access from options("repos") Dirk, Sadly I can't use localhost for all of those. 172.17.0.1 is an internal Docker IP, not the localhost address (127.0.0.1), they are there to handle two different scenarios and different ones will fail to resolve in different scenarios. Are you saying that the DNS lookup adds a timing issue to the search order? Isn't the list deterministically ordered? Greg On Sun, 31 Mar 2024 at 22:15, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > Greg, > > There are AFAICT two issues here: how R unrolls the named vector that is > the > 'repos' element in the list 'options', and how your computer resolves DNS > for > localhost vs 172.17.0.1. I would try something like > > options(repos = c(CRAN = "http://localhost:3001/proxy", > C = "http://localhost:3002", > B = "http://localhost:3003/proxy", > A = "http://localhost:3004")) > > or the equivalent with 172.17.0.1. When I do that here I get errors from > first to last as we expect: > > > options(repos = c(CRAN = "http://localhost:3001/proxy", > C = "http://localhost:3002", > B = "http://localhost:3003/proxy", > A = "http://localhost:3004")) > > available.packages() > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://localhost:3001/proxy/src/contrib: > cannot open URL 'http://localhost:3001/proxy/src/contrib/PACKAGES' > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://localhost:3002/src/contrib: > cannot open URL 'http://localhost:3002/src/contrib/PACKAGES' > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://localhost:3003/proxy/src/contrib: > cannot open URL 'http://localhost:3003/proxy/src/contrib/PACKAGES' > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://localhost:3004/src/contrib: > cannot open URL 'http://localhost:3004/src/contrib/PACKAGES' > Package Version Priority Depends Imports LinkingTo Suggests > Enhances License License_is_FOSS License_restricts_use OS_type Archs MD5sum > NeedsCompilation File Repository > > > > Dirk > > -- > dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel