[R-sig-Geo] CRAN down until tomorrow (?) was: Re: Package rgdal

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Jan Hackenberg wrote:

> Hi
> i am seriously having problems with installing this package on my Linux-
> Ubuntu machine. I think that i have installed the external gdal packages
> correctly.

CRAN is down - major unplanned power outage in Vienna:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-April/236601.html

Roger

>
> The error message is in German :
>
>> install.packages('rgdal',dep = TRUE , lib = '~/lib/R')
> --- Bitte einen CRAN Spiegel f?r diese Sitzung ausw?hlen ---
> Lade Tcl/Tk Interface ... fertig
> Warnmeldungen:
> 1: In open.connection(con, "r") :
>  kann nicht mit 'cran.r-project.org' auf Port 80 verbinden
> 2: In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>  package ?rgdal? is not available
>
> this means :
> 1)  cant connect to cran.r-project.org on port 80
>
> And it takes about 5 Minutes to get the choose mirror window being opened. I
> also recognized that pages like *cran*.*r*-project.org seem to be offline
> too.
> So my quesion is, are there some server problems right now, and that is the
> reason for not being able to install this package?
> I need it to transform some Gauss krueger coordinates into latlong and this
> sptransform method from the package is the one i want to use.
>
> Best regards
> Jan Hackenberg
>
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