[R-sig-Debian] chooseCRANmirror()

[Liviu Andronic]

On 8/27/09, ogbos okike <ogbos.okike at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > install.packages("cvt")
>  Warning in install.packages("cvt") :
>   argument 'lib' is missing: using
>  '/home/ogbos/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.8'
>  --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>  Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
>  Warning: unable to access index for repository
>  http://cran.za.r-project.org/src/contrib
>  Warning messages:
>  1: In open.connection(con, "r") :
>   unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org' on port 80.
>  2: In install.packages("cvt") : package ‘cvt’ is not available
>
I would suspect an Internet connection issue. Do you access the
internet via a proxy server? If so, configure wget and then issue
install.packages("cvt", met="wget"). Try the command even if you do
not pass through a proxy, it might just work.
Liviu