[R] Updating packages under R 2.8.1

[Uwe Ligges]

Henning Wildhagen wrote:
> Dear users,
> 
> i just installed the lastest version of R, 2.8.1 on my computer (OS Windows 
> XP). Then i tried to update the packages copied from my old R version by
> 
>> update.packages(ask=F)
> 
> However i get the following warning:
> 
> "Warning: unable to access index for repository 
> http://cran.ch.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.8
> Warning: unable to access index for repository 
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.8"
> 
> and the updating fails.


Check your internet connection and your proxy settings as well as the 
correpsonding entries in the R for Windows FAQs.

Uwe Ligges


> Is it a server problem of CRAN? 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Henning
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