Updating Packages (was Re: [R] Reading of a large SAS Export

[Dr. Stephan Martin Rudolfer]

Dear Uwe,

Many, many thanks for your advice; it worked perfectly!  By the 
way, my OS is Win98.

Best wishes,
Stephan

> Date:          Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:45:34 +0200
> From:          Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
> Organization:  Fachbereich Statistik, Universitaet Dortmund
> To:            "Dr. Stephan Martin Rudolfer" <stephan at fs2.ma.man.ac.uk>
> Cc:            r-help at hypatia.math.ethz.ch
> Subject:       Re: Updating Packages (was Re: [R] Reading of a large SAS Export dat

> "Dr. Stephan Martin Rudolfer" wrote:
> > 
> > It was suggested to me that, although I've installed version 1.3.0 of
> > R, the contained foreign package won't be the most recent.  Hence,
> > it's worth using update.package().  However, when I did that, I got
> > the following log file:
> > 
> > > options(CRAN="http://cran.us.r-project.org/")
> > > update.packages()
> > trying URL `http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'
> > unable to connect to 'cran.us.r-project.org'.
> > Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"),  :
> >         cannot open URL `http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'
> > >
> > > options(CRAN="http://cran.r-project.org/")
> > > update.packages()
> > 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'
> > >
> > 
> > The first URL was inaccessible with Netscape. Yet when I directly
> > accessed the second URL using Netscape, it worked perfectly, with the
> > following result (severely edited to save space):
> > 
> > Package: bootstrap
> > Version: 1.0-7
> > 
> > Package: foreign
> > Priority: recommended
> > Version: 0.4-7
> > 
> > Could you please explain what I have to do to get download.file to
> > work correctly?
> 
> 
> I guess your OS is Win2k (you didn't tell it). 
> Try to rename \rw1030\modules\internet2.dll to
> \rw1030\modules\internet.dll (and save that one at first). Sometimes
> this procedure works...
> 
> Uwe Ligges

 


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