Thanks, Jeff. I found someone to help - all sorted.

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil@dcn.davis.ca.us>wrote:

> I see that you have set a proxy to a nonstandard DNS name, and your first
> warning is that your computer couldn't figure out where that proxy is. This
> is not an R question... please talk to your network administrator about
> whether you have a proxy and what it is called.
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> Neil COLLIER <n.collier@ecu.edu.au> wrote:
>
> >Dear List,
> >
> >I have a problem connecting to a CRAN mirror through a networked
> >computer running Vista Enterprise on a Dell PC. I added
> >
> >http_proxy=http://gannet/ http_proxy_user=ask
> >
> >to the Target in the R shortcut, completed the username and password in
> >the Proxy Authentication window, but get the following warning:
> >
> >Warning message:
> >In open.connection(con, "r") : unable to resolve 'gannet'
> >
> >When I try to download a package I get the following messages:
> >
> >> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
> >Warning: unable to access index for repository
> >http://cran.csiro.au/bin/windows/contrib/2.15
> >Warning: unable to access index for repository
> >http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.15
> >Error in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA,
> >type = type) :
> >  no packages were specified
> >
> >
> >This approach worked for me on other networks but this is the first
> >time I've encountered this issue. Any help is appreciated.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Neil Collier
> >Edith Cowan University
> >
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