Hi Sean,
Your intuition is spots on: update.package also hang:

Message d'avis :
connexion à 'cran.ch.r-project.org' impossible sur le port 80 
Avis : unable to access index for repository 
http://cran.ch.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.1
 (sorry for the french...)

I did not try it before as I installed R on this machine for the 1st time 
last week (so had nothing to update)

Probably it all hangs with the system manager here (who has NO previous 
experience of working with statisticians and other number crunchers). Any 
idea about which systems parameters are necessary to allow the connexion?

Anne






Sean O'Riordain <sean.oriordain@gmail.com> 
11.08.2005 08:16
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Re: [R] connexion problem getHdata (HMisc)






Hi Anne,

does update.packages() work, or does it just hang?

cheers!
Sean

On 11/08/05, anne.piotet@ge.ocai.ch <anne.piotet@ge.ocai.ch> wrote:
> Sorry about the missing info, I'm just trying to do too many things at 
the
> same time!
> I installed R on my Windows2000 computer (no choice there) .
> 
> > version
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386, mingw32
> status
> major    2
> minor    1.1
> year     2005
> month    06
> day      20
> language R
> 
> Hmisc version: 3.0-6  ;
> 
> On my home computer (LINUX and Windows XT) with the same (latest) R and
> Hmisc version installed, I had no problem with getHdata...
> 
> Thanks
> Anne
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell@vanderbilt.edu>
> 09.08.2005 22:19
> 
> A
> anne.piotet@ge.ocai.ch
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> Re: [R] connexion problem getHdata (HMisc)
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> 
> 
> 
> anne.piotet@ge.ocai.ch wrote:
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> > Hi
> >
> > Just installing R and some packages in my new job; trying to download
> > dataset directly from
> > biostatistics dptm of Vanderbilt University using getHdata from Hmisc 
I
> > get the following:
> >
> > Error in file (file, "r") : connexion openinig not possible
> > Furthermore :
> > connexion to 'biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu' impossible on port 80
> >
> > Can one get around this problem?
> >
> > NOTE: I am not an administrator on the system....
> >
> >
> > Anne Piotet
> 
> It is hard for me to help when you provided no code and no output from
> typing
> 
>   version
> 
> at the command prompt.  You also did not include the version of Hmisc.
> I tried a small test:
> 
> library(Hmisc)
> getHdata(titanic3)
> 
> and it worked fine, using the most recent Hmisc.
> 
> Frank
> 
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