Options$repos default problem

RStudio IDE
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I recently had to reload R (3.51). Ever since, whenever I load or update an option, I get a warning:

Warning: unable to access index for repository NA/src/contrib:
scheme not supported in URL 'NA/src/contrib/PACKAGES'

The source of this error is obviou. I looked at options$repos, and the last entry is:

NA

I have been unable to remove this erroneous last entry permanently. Is there a way to reset the startup repos entry to remove this annoying, but apparently harmless, warning?

Thanks in advance for any help with this issue.

Larry Hunsicker

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You can set repo with options(repos = c(CRAN = "https://cloud.r-project.org/") that you can put in your .Rprofile.

However, you should have a default repo configured. You can check that you don't have a repos set somewhere that erasing the default one with NA.

Do you have this error in an R session, an RStudio project or every time ?

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Thanks, cderv. This turns out to have been a problem in my old .rprofile, which automatically listed a bunch of repos, including one that has since disappeared, leaving an NA in my options(repos). I removed the .rprofile line, since I now use a single repo, and that fixed the problem.

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