[R] Newbie question: error message with install.packages

Thu Aug 20 19:09:00 CEST 2015

Many thanks.

Yes, I am using the R.app GUI:
[R.app GUI 1.66 (6996) x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0]

At startup,

> getOption("repos")
    CRAN
"@CRAN@"

Then when attempting again to install RWeka I'm able to select the mirror,
and after that the result is the same as yours:

> getOption("repos")
                           CRAN
"https://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu"

Unfortunately the same error message happens with install.packages, for
example:
> install.packages("err")
Error: Line starting '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLI ...' is malformed!

I've confirmed that Java 8 update 60 is correctly loaded.

Interestingly I've loaded R on my Windows machine and this error message
doesn't happen, the packages load properly.

Peter

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:17 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
wrote:

>
> > On Aug 19, 2015, at 9:13 PM, Peter Wicher <pjwicher at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I’m starting to work my way through “Machine Learning With R” by Brett
> Lantz.
> >
> > Running on Mac OS X 10.10.4
> >
> > I’ve downloaded and installed R and the R Console comes up fine.
> >
> > Whenever I use the install.packages command, regardless of the package I
> get the same error message:
> >
> >> install.packages ("RWeka")
> > Error: Line starting '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLI ...' is malformed!
> >
> > Any idea of what is wrong and how to solve it?
>
> Not sure. Have never gotten that error message, and I do use OS X 10.10.3
> as well as having very recently updated to R 3.2.2.
>
> Are you using the R.app GUI?
>
> If so … What do you see when you look at Preference/Startup for the
> default CRAN repository?
>
> If not … What do you see when you run:
>
> getOption("repos”)
>
> I get:
>
>                           CRAN
> "http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu"
>
>
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Peter Wicher
> > pjwicher at gmail.com
> >
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