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install attempts gave 401 and "unable to access repo index" #4

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benthestatistician opened this issue Aug 12, 2024 · 3 comments
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install attempts gave 401 and "unable to access repo index" #4

benthestatistician opened this issue Aug 12, 2024 · 3 comments

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@benthestatistician
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I got a 401 when I tried to install using install_github():

> devtools::install_github("josherrickson/rrelaxiv@*release")
Error in github_resolve_ref.github_release(meta$ref %||% ref, meta, host = host,  : 
  Cannot find repo josherrickson/rrelaxiv.
HTTP error 401.
  Bad credentials

  Rate limit remaining: 59/60
  Rate limit reset at: 2024-08-12 16:48:25 UTC

Maybe the fix should be on my end, as I also got:

Using github PAT from envvar GITHUB_PAT. Use `gitcreds::gitcreds_set()` and unset GITHUB_PAT in .Renviron (or elsewhere) if you want to use the more secure git credential store instead.

If there's something users should do about their github PAT before trying this, then we might consider alerting them to this on the webpage.

In a similar vein, from reading the webpage I figured I'd start by trying the drat method, despite running this from a linux box for which there are no binaries there. This gave me the error below. If the issue is that linux users shouldn't be trying the drat method, perhaps the website could flag this; I'm also sharing it in case it really is alerting us to a site configuration issue.

> drat::addRepo("rrelaxiv", "https://errickson.net/rrelaxiv")
> install.packages("rrelaxiv")
Installing package into ‘/home/bbh/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning: unable to access index for repository https://errickson.net/rrelaxiv/src/contrib:
  Line starting '<!DOCTYPE html> ...' is malformed!
Warning message:
package ‘rrelaxiv’ is not available for this version of R

(Using devtools v. 2.4.5 and drat v. 0.2.4 on R 4.4.1, platform x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.)
@josherrickson
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I have no issues on my end running the devtools install, so it's likely either on your end or a github issue. As far as I know, you don't need any special github permissions to install this way; you should be able to install without any github account. Have you tried again recently? Cannot find repo josherrickson/rrelaxiv reads like an internet issue.

I'll look into drat when I get a chance.

@benthestatistician
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Update: I got the devtools::install_github() command to work by removing an outdated GITHUB_PAT from my ~/.Renviron. (It was the only thing declared in that file, so I just deleted it; elsewhere I see the advice to create a new PAT and store it locally via usethis::edit_r_environ().)

My remaining drat-related concern could be address by adding a line to the README pointing *nix users away from using drat to install rrelaxiv. If indeed that's what's suggested.

@josherrickson
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josherrickson commented Sep 5, 2024 •
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Installing via drat on *nix should work. There's something else going on with the site. I'll need to find time to look into this more.

I do wonder if we should stop supporting drat. It's always been a bit flaky, and requires a not insignificant amount of attention every times there's an R release. We can just support installing from source via install_github, and if a user has real issues with it, we can try to build the binaries for them.

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