[R] Windows GUI package install annoyance

[Berton Gunter]

Thanks, Uwe. I knew it was something stupid, but I could have stared at it
forever and still missed it.


-- Bert Gunter
Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
South San Francisco, CA

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de] 
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 9:28 AM
> To: Berton Gunter
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Windows GUI package install annoyance
> 
> Berton Gunter wrote:
> 
> > Folks:
> > 
> > A minor (R 2.2.0) Windows package install annoyance, but I 
> can't figure out
> > how to fix it. If someone could tell me how or point me to 
> the appropriate
> > docs, I would appreciate it. 
> > 
> > I set my CRAN mirror in my Rprofile.site file. After startup, I get:
> > 
> > 
> >>getOption('repos')
> > 
> >                           CRAN 
> > "http:/cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/" 
> > 
> > 
> > However, when I then go to the GUI "Packages" menu item and click on
> > "Install packages..." I get:
> > 
> > 
> >>utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
> > 
> > Warning: unable to access index for repository
> > http:/cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.2
> > Error in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1], 
> dependencies = TRUE, type =
> > type) : 
> >         no packages were specified
> > 
> > 
> > However, If I now manually set my mirror (through the menu: 
> "Set Cran
> > mirror" item, which invokes chooseCRANmirror()) , and now 
> check my repos
> > option, I get again:
> > 
> > 
> >>getOption('repos')
> > 
> >                           CRAN 
> > "http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu" 
> > 
> > 
> > ## but now the "install packages.." menu choice works! 
> > Is there an easy way to avoid having to manually re-specify 
> my CRAN mirror?
> 
> Yes: do not omit the second "/" after "http:" in 
> "http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/" .....
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> > My apologies for wasted bandwidth if I have overlooked 
> something obvious,
> > which I believe is the case.
> > 
> > Many thanks.
> > 
> > -- Bert
> > 
> > Bert Gunter
> > Genentech
> > 
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