[R] Installation of packages via GUI, Mac OS X

Thu Jul 3 23:08:12 CEST 2008

I'd suggest taking this question to the R-sig-mac mailing list

  (List-Subscribe: 
<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac>,<mailto:r-sig-mac-request at stat.math.ethz.ch?subject=subscribe>)

and you will get asked for more information, including at least the 
output of sessionInfo(), and probably also the version number of the 
GUI, which is not the same as the R version number.

-Don

At 4:37 PM -0400 7/3/08, David Afshartous wrote:
>All,
>
>I'm running R v2.7.1 on Mac OS X.  When I go to the R package installer GUI,
>I am not prompted to select a repository.   The usual screen is there but
>the columns for package, installed version, and repository version are all
>populated via blank entries.
>
>If I select "Get List" the error below occurs.  The same thing occurs if I
>go form the command line via install.packages.  Any suggestions much
>appreciated.
>
>Cheers,
>David
>
>
>Error: subscript out of bounds
>In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first
>50)
>>  warnings()
>Warning messages:
>1: In read.dcf(file = tmpf) ... : Line starting '<html> ...' is malformed!
>2: In read.dcf(file = tmpf) ... : Line starting '<head> ...' is malformed!
>3: In read.dcf(file = tmpf) ... :
>   Line starting '<title>HostingZero.c ...' is malformed!
>
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