[R] Unable to install packages

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/10/2014 3:17 PM, Santiago Bueno wrote:
>>
>> New to R. When trying to install packages always get the following
>> message:
>>
>> > install.packages("HSAUR2")
>> Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Users/sbueno/Documents/R/win-library/2.14’
>> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>> Warning: unable to access index for repository
>> http://www.laqee.unal.edu.co/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.14
>> Warning: unable to access index for repository
>> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.14
>> Warning messages:
>> 1: In open.connection(con, "r") : unable to resolve 'cran.r-project.org'
>> 2: In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>>    package ‘HSAUR2’ is not available (for R version 2.14.0)
>> >
>>
>> Help please!!!!
>
>
> Sounds as though you are having Internet problems.  Try the Windows FAQ
> 2.19, from the help menu.

...and a very old R installation. Someone had to say that.
Install/update to most recent version (R 3.1.1) and you'll be much
better off.

/Henrik

>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
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>>
>> Santiago
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