[R] update.packages()

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Andrew C. Ward wrote:

>
> Dear R users,
>
> I am using R Version 1.3.0 (2001-06-22) under Windows 2000 Professional (SP 2).
>
> When I try "Packages"->"Update packages from CRAN"
> the result is something like
>    trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'
>    unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org'.
>    Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"),  :
>         cannot open URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'
>
> Opening the same URL in Internet Explorer opens PACKAGES okay. I had the
> impression (perhaps fanciful) that R used the same settings as IE. I'm less
> than knowledgeable about (among other things) proxies and sockets etc, but
> would greatly value your advice on getting this very handy feature working.

The tolerance for timeouts may well be different -- I have been able to
(very slowly) load files in a browser that I can't load with
read.table(url()).

You would probably be better off using the Oz mirror of CRAN. Set
   options(CRAN="http://cran.au.r-project.org")


	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle

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