[R] Help required for Rcmdr

[Vito M. R. Muggeo]

dear John,
Thanks for your prompt reply

Il 09/02/2016 16.23, Fox, John ha scritto:
> Dear Vito,
>
> I've never experienced this problem myself in a general way,
Me too. I have always installed R packages straightforwardly..

and I'm sure that Windows users of R call install.packages() all the 
time to
install packages from CRAN mirrors.
Of course..

So the question to ask, I think, is what's preventing install.packages()
from working in your case -- possibly an Internet connectivity problem
due to a firewall, proxy server, use of https, etc.
I'm sure that others more knowledgeable about these issues than I am will
be able to make more specific suggestions for fixing the problem.

However I have just checked that it works with *http* servers (but not 
for any other *https*..)

Thanks for your support,
best,
vito

>
> Best,
>   John
>
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> ________________________________________
> From: R-help [r-help-bounces at r-project.org] on behalf of Vito M. R. Muggeo [vito.muggeo at unipa.it]
> Sent: February 9, 2016 10:15 AM
> To: Sekhar Venkatesan; Duncan Murdoch; R-help at r-project.org
> Cc: R-windows at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Help required for Rcmdr
>
> dear all,
> I don't know if that problem is related to the Rcmdr package itself..
> (Sekhar try to install any other packages..)
>
> I am experiencing the same problem, in that when typing
>
>   > install.packages("_ANY_PACKAGE_")
>
> I get the message
> Warning message:
> package ‘_ANY_PACKAGE_’ is not available (for R version 3.2.3)
>
> But I can download the .zip file and unzip it..
>
> I tried different CRAN mirrors...
>
> best,
> vito
>
>
> Il 09/02/2016 12.44, Sekhar Venkatesan ha scritto:
>> Dear Mr. Murdoch,
>> I am extremely sorry to have sent the mail to you instead of R-help. Thanks
>> for directing me.
>> I have downloaded R 3.2.3 version. After that i asked for
>> install.packages("Rcmdr") . It says that Rcmdr is not available with
>> version 3.2.3. On looking at the pdf file for getting started with R, i
>> found that i should download with SDI Graphical interface which I did once
>> again but still i could not get the Rcmdr console.
>> I attended a workshop where the faculty brought out the R console as well
>> as the R-commander console where i could import files and also do all the
>> statistics easily. I am not getting the R-commander console.
>> Shall be grateful if i could get help on getting the R-commander console
>> with the user friendly way of doing the statistical operations.
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Once again apologize to Dr. Duncan Murdoch for disturbing him.
>> Sekhar
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/02/2016 8:56 AM, Sekhar Venkatesan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Sirs,
>>>> I have downloaded R 3.2.3 version from the CRAN site. I have tried to
>>>> download with both MDI and SDI user interface. But Rcmdr is not opening in
>>>> as a console  along with R console. Help is required to open Rcmdr. I have
>>>> tried install.packages("Rcmdr"), library(Rcmdr) etc but to no avail.
>>>> thanks
>>>> Sekhar
>>>> Delhi
>>>> India
>>>>
>>>> This is the wrong email address for help.  Please write to R-help, and
>>> describe what happens when you try the commands that are failing.
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>
>>
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Vito M.R. Muggeo
Dip.to Sc Statist e Matem `Vianelli'
Università di Palermo
viale delle Scienze, edificio 13
90128 Palermo - ITALY
tel: 091 23895240
fax: 091 485726
http://dssm.unipa.it/vmuggeo
Associate Editor, Statistical Modelling