Epitweetr dependencies download error

[iancg1]

Hello everyone!
I'm trying to install epitweetr on a new desktop. I followed all the instructions for a new epitweetr setup:

Downloading and installing the following:

1. R (4.2.2 64-bit)
2. R studio
3. Java 1.8
4. Microsoft C++
5. Pandoc
6. Epitweetr (CRAN)
7. TinyTex (CRAN)
8. taskscheduleR (CRAN)

Set JAVA_HOME in Windows Control Panel (System Environment):

Sys.getenv("JAVA_HOME")
[1] "C:\Program Files\Java\jre.1.8.0_351"

Then launch epitweetr:

library(epitweetr)
epitweetr_app("C:/Users/ianch/OneDrive/Documents/epitweetr_data

However, upon running the manual task: dependencies, I get the following error message:

Max number of retries reached failed while getting sbt dependencies getting dependencies simpleWarning in download.file(url = urls2[[i]], destfile = dest_file[[i]], mode = "wb"): downloaded length 0 != reported length 554

And the dependencies task has a pending status ever since. What am I doing wrong? Appreciating all the help I could get.

Regards,
Ian

[lauespinosa]

Dear Ian,

There are some things that you can check or do to troubleshoot the issue:

• Ensure that you are using the full path. From the code above, it misses the last quotation mark and closing bracket: ("C:/Users/ianch/OneDrive/Documents/epitweetr_data")
• Try launching epitweetr in a local folder not within One Drive (e.g., "C:/Users/ianch/epitweetr_data"). Sometimes, if the One Drive folder is not synched in the local folder and kept only in the cloud may produce some issues/errors
• Please check this closed issue and try increasing the timeout.
• Ensure that the desktop/computer is active while downloading the dependencies.

We have recently published some videos on how to install epitweetr version 2.0 and above for the first time in a Windows machine. It may be also helpful for you.

Regards,
Laura

[iancg1]

Hi Laura,

Thank you for the response and sorry it took a while for me to give feedback. I fixed the code and moved it to a local folder ("D:/epitweetr_files"). I have not encountered the error but dependencies, geonames, and languages are still stuck at pending after a day of running it. The epitweetr_files folder only has the following files with a total size of 20KB. I have a stable internet connection so I don't think that's the problem. What else should I look into?

Best,
Ian