Thanks all. It does seem to have been a connectivity issue after all. The
base package was installed after an hour's wait.
Yes, Steve I was using the R GUI; interestingly R was showing as "not
responding" on the activitiy monitor as well.
Anjan

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Steve Lianoglou <
mailinglist.honeypot@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry for not finishing that thought, but in short: try running R
> through the terminal to see if it reports installation progress
> better.
>
> -steve
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Steve Lianoglou
> <mailinglist.honeypot@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Also, if you are running R using the R.app GUI, I believe it just
> > looks like it's doing nothing when all the install process is going
> > on.
> >
> > It's actually been a long time since I used the GUI (I just run
> > through terminal, or emacs), so I'm not sure if this is your problem,
> > but I remember it doing that back when I was first using "it" (the
> > GUI) and getting into R.
> >
> > -steve
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Hollis Wright <wrighth@ohsu.edu> wrote:
> >> For what it's worth, the Fred Hutch mirror does seem to be agonizingly
> slow for me at the moment. I switched to the Bethesda mirror with
> chooseBioCMirror and setRepositories and it is installing at
> >> normal speed. Could be worth a try.
> >>
> >> Hollis Wright, PhD
> >> Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute
> >> ________________________________________
> >> From: bioconductor-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch [
> bioconductor-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Vincent Carey [
> stvjc@channing.harvard.edu]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 11:01 AM
> >> To: ANJAN PURKAYASTHA
> >> Cc: bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch
> >> Subject: Re: [BioC] R hanging up on install of BioConductor
> >>
> >> There is no evidence of a problem at the bioc server end, so you need
> >> to consider your
> >> network connectivity.  Try to work within R, using install.packages,
> >> to acquire something small
> >> like
> >>
> >> install.packages("ash")
> >>
> >> R "hanging" might indicate that you don't have sufficient connectivity
> >> to complete the transaction;
> >> it is not a bioconductor issue.  Various issues regarding the roles of
> >> proxies are reviewed in the
> >> documentation retrieved with ?download.file in R
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:14 PM, ANJAN PURKAYASTHA
> >> <anjan.purkayastha@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> Am working on  Mac OS X 10.5.8. Just installed R 2.11.1.
> >>> Tried to install the base packages of Bioconductor with :
> >>>
> >>> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
> >>> biocLite()
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> R hangs while downloading the various modules.   Have tried it multiple
> >>> times (after multiple reinstalls of R) - no success.  Anybody else
> having
> >>> this problem?
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Anjan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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research associate
fas center for systems biology,
harvard university
52 oxford street
cambridge ma 02138
phone-703.740.6939
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