
I am operating Linux via a High Performance Computing environment with a network of clusters & systems - so its not necessarily something that will be feasible since R is a globally accessed application on the HPC.

Aside from that, I highly doubt it's the version of R I am using as I was able to install package Rserve successfully a few weeks ago.  

What could be some other possibilities?

Thank you!


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Winsemius [via R]" <ml-node+2215914-1819898924-258272@n4.nabble.com>
Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010 4:03 pm
Subject: Re: R cannot access the web?
To: Trojan <ypatel@usc.edu>

> 
> 
> 
> 
> On May 13, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Trojan 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
> 
> Unable to reproduce with a more current version of R (2.10.1 RC  
> (2009-12-09 r50695) ) on a Leopard Mac.
> 
> download.file("http://www.nytimes.com", destfile<-tempfile())
> trying URL 'http://www.nytimes.com'
> Content type 'text/html' length unknown
> opened URL
> .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
> .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
> .......... ......
> downloaded 116 Kb
> 
> 
> >
> > How can I fix this?
> 
> Have you considered updating your R installation?
> 
> -- 
> David.
> 
> > 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
> > 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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> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
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