there is no package called 'BiocInstaller'

Question

Whenever I try to install a new package I'm getting this error:

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")  
Warning in install.packages :  
  package ‘BiocInstaller’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2 RC)  
Installing package into ‘/home/hd-master/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)  
trying URL 'http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.13/bioc/src/contrib/BiocInstaller_1.12.0.tar.gz'  
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 13509 bytes (13 Kb)  
opened URL  
==================================================  
downloaded 13 Kb  

Error in library(BiocInstaller) :   
  there is no package called 'BiocInstaller'  
Execution halted  

Answer 1

• Install R-3.0.2 (not RC).
• Try starting R as follows: R --vanilla
• See if you are pointing to a weird mirror. What is the output of getOption("repos")?
• Try this: install.packages("BiocInstaller", repos="http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.13/bioc")