# Package ‘remotes’ is not available (for R version 3.6.0)

**URL:** <https://travis-ci.community/t/package-remotes-is-not-available-for-r-version-3-6-0/3938>\
**Category:** R\
**Created:** [June 27, 2019, 5:56am UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/package-remotes-is-not-available-for-r-version-3-6-0/3938 "2019-06-27T05:56:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![rwetherall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@rwetherall](https://travis-ci.community/u/rwetherall)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 5:56am UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/package-remotes-is-not-available-for-r-version-3-6-0/3938/1 "2019-06-27T05:56:19Z")

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Hi All,

I’m seeing some failures that I can’t track down.

Installing R packages: remotes  
$ Rscript -e ‘install.packages(c(“remotes”));if (!all(c(“remotes”) %in% installed.packages())) { q(status = 1, save = “no”)}’  
Installing package into ‘/home/travis/R/Library’  
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)  
Warning: unable to access index for repository [https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib:](https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib:)  
cannot open URL ‘[https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES](https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES)’  
Warning message:  
package ‘remotes’ is not available (for R version 3.6.0)  
The command “Rscript -e ‘install.packages(c(“remotes”));if (!all(c(“remotes”) %in% installed.packages())) { q(status = 1, save = “no”)}’” failed and exited with 1 during .

I hadn’t run a build for a while and the changes I made didn’t seem to warrant failures of this nature.

Any idea? Anyone seen anything similar before?

Thanks,  
Roy

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**Author:** ![rwetherall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@rwetherall](https://travis-ci.community/u/rwetherall)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 6:32am UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/package-remotes-is-not-available-for-r-version-3-6-0/3938/2 "2019-06-27T06:32:27Z")

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Adding …

```
r:
  - oldrel

```

… to my .travis.yml fixed things.

Assume this is an issue with building 3.6.0?

Cheers,  
Roy