[Rd] installing any package fails using 'install.packages()' (PR#13993)

Sat Oct 10 05:25:10 CEST 2009

Dear all,
I  installed my R-2.9.2 on my ubuntu version 9.04 successfully  using the
command

   sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

The problem is that I cannot install any package.

See my details below:

> install.packages("epicalc")
Warning in install.packages("epicalc") :
  argument 'lib' is missing: using
'/home/lmramba/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9'
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
Error in read.dcf(file = tmpf) : Line starting '<html> ...' is malformed!
>
> install.packages("lattice")
Warning in install.packages("lattice") :
  argument 'lib' is missing: using
'/home/lmramba/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9'
Error in read.dcf(file = tmpf) : Line starting '<html> ...' is malformed!
>
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24)
i486-pc-linux-gnu

locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tcltk_2.9.2 tools_2.9.2
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