ERROR: dependency 'httr' is not available for package 'plotly'

[chriddyp]

In windows, installing plotly yields:

> devtools::install_github("ropensci/plotly")
Downloading github repo ropensci/plotly@master
Installing plotly
Installing 5 packages: curl, httr, R6, Rcpp, stringi
package ‘curl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘curl’
package ‘httr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘httr’
package ‘R6’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘Rcpp’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘Rcpp’
package ‘stringi’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘stringi’
"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-32~1.1/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore CMD  \
  INSTALL  \
  "C:/Users/legion/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpcRv8eO/devtools156024f159b7/ropensci-plotly-92c3ac4"  \
  --library="C:/Program Files/R/R-3.2.1/library" --install-tests 

ERROR: dependency 'httr' is not available for package 'plotly'
* removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.2.1/library/plotly'
Error: Command failed (1)

[cpsievert]

hmm, I wouldn't consider this to be a plotly bug, but something specific to that machine. This post might help fix it -> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26570912/error-in-installation-a-r-package

[cpsievert]

@chriddyp any progress here? I suppose you could try doing this

Closing this since there isn't anything we can do with the package to solve this problem.

[b1tr4t]

might as well just write the fekking thing myself. why isn't there anything you can do to manage these geometrically expanding dependencies?