[R] R cannot access the web?

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Trojan <ypatel at usc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I had originally posted regarding an error when trying to install package -
> GenABEL - it has now become clear that R is not able to connect to the net.
> Below are a couple of things I've tried with the resulting errors
>
> I am running R 2.6.2 on Linux e15 X86
>
> How can I fix this?  Thank you!
>
>
> 1)  download.file("http://www.nytimes.com", destfile<-tempfile())
>
> Error:
> trying URL 'http://www.nytimes.com'
> Error in download.file("http://www.nytimes.com", destfile <- tempfile()) :
>  cannot open URL 'http://www.nytimes.com'
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file("http://www.nytimes.com", destfile <- tempfile()) :
>  unable to resolve 'www.nytimes.com'
>
>
> 2) install.packages("GenABeL", lib= "/home/software/GenABEL", dep = TRUE,
> method = "wget")
>
> Error:
> Selection: 43
> sh: wget: command not found

Make 'wget' available to R on search path.  Verify by typing 'wget' at
the shell command prompt.

My $.02

/H

> Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In open.connection(con, "r") : unable to resolve 'cran.r-project.org'
> 2: In gzfile(file, "r") :
>  cannot open compressed file
> '/tmp/8379702.hpc-pbs.usc.edu/RtmpmUR48z/file66334873', probable reason 'No
> such file or directory'
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