[R] update.packagesl (method=internal) on Windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Dieter Menne wrote:

> Congratulations,
>
> Rhanks a lot to all those working on 1030. Installing
> a new version R is one of the better excuses to stop
> REAL work. Not to speak of new "lattice" version.
>
> On my platform (Win2000, Internet Explorer via Proxy), I could
> not get the new default method of "internal" to work. The manual
> says that the settings from Internet Explorer are used,

What manual?  Do you mean the help page?

Read the CHANGES file and switch to internet2.dll.  Sorry, the docs
got left one step behind when late in the day I switched the defaults.

> but no connection (dial-up ADSL) is established, error message
> return immediately.

It will not open an Internet connection.  The following saying that your
DNS is not finding the site.  I suspect you need to open a connection
first.  Personally I detest programs that make connections without asking.

> update.packages()
> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'
> unable to resolve '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

Don't expect too much: an awful lot of this part of Windows does not work
as documented on Windows 2000.  You should be able to switch to
internet2.dll and make use of your proxies.  However, I changed away from
that last week as on a very flaky connection, it was a lot less reliable.


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