Error in download(dest, src, auth) : client error: (403) Forbidden

[ajduberstein]

The install instructions currently produce the following:

d> require(devtools)
d> install_github('ramnathv/rCharts@dev')
Downloading github repo ramnathv/rCharts@dev
Error in download(dest, src, auth) : client error: (403) Forbidden
d> install_github('ramnathv/rMaps')
Downloading github repo ramnathv/rMaps@master
Error in download(dest, src, auth) : client error: (403) Forbidden

[ramnathv]

Are you able to install any packages at all using install_github? The error message seems to indicate issues with being able to download stuff, which could be due to proxy issues. Are you behind a corporate firewall?

[daroczig]

This is not rCharts related, but IMHO @ajduberstein has been rate limited by GH for too many API calls. To verify, call curl in your console to check the HTTP headers, e.g.:

$ curl -i https://api.github.com/ramnathv/rMaps
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Server: GitHub.com
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:10:05 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Status: 403 Forbidden
X-RateLimit-Limit: 60
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 0
X-RateLimit-Reset: 1418344993
X-GitHub-Media-Type: github.v3
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Frame-Options: deny
Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'
Content-Length: 256
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag, Link, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
X-GitHub-Request-Id: BC06C159:5D11:76DFF86:548A325D
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

{
  "message": "API rate limit exceeded for ***.***.***.***. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)",
  "documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting"
}