install.packages fails in knitr document: “trying to use CRAN without setting a mirror”

Knitr produces a R session, without a default cran mirror unless you specifically asked for one. We tend to forget we need to set up CRAN for every R session when we use Rstudio because it takes care of it, but only for interactive use, not for knitr.

You could try specifying a mirror as a install.packages argument:

install.packages("weatherData",repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")

Alternatively, you could set up your default CRAN mirror in your .Rprofile. See this answer.

That said, it is not a good idea to install packages through a knitr document that you will probably compile several times. You should assume people know how to install a missing package if needed, or at least test whether the package is installed before installing it again

if(!require(weatherData)) install.packages("weatherData",repos = "http://cran.us.r

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