[R] connexion problem getHdata (HMisc)

[Sean O'Riordain]

Could this be a web-proxy problem?

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#The-internet-download-functions-fail_002e

Have you tried doing update.packages() ? does this work?

I presume you're on some sort of Windows?

Sean


On 09/08/05, Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
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> > Hi
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> > Just installing R and some packages in my new job; trying to download
> > dataset directly from
> > biostatistics dptm of Vanderbilt University using getHdata from Hmisc I
> > get the following:
> >
> > Error in file (file, "r") : connexion openinig not possible
> > Furthermore :
> > connexion to 'biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu' impossible on port 80
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> > Can one get around this problem?
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> > NOTE: I am not an administrator on the system....
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> > Anne Piotet
> 
> It is hard for me to help when you provided no code and no output from
> typing
> 
>   version
> 
> at the command prompt.  You also did not include the version of Hmisc.
> I tried a small test:
> 
> library(Hmisc)
> getHdata(titanic3)
> 
> and it worked fine, using the most recent Hmisc.
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> Frank
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