[R-SIG-Mac] install packages snafu

[Helen DeWitt]

Well -- it DID come up with the long list of packages it was supposed 
to. I have in fact changed my ISP since the last time I installed 
packages, so have just come to a cafe with a Hotspot to double check, 
still get the same junk.


Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
> On Oct 24, 2006, at 3:24 PM, Helen DeWitt wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately every mirror I try returns the
>> same garbage.
>>
>
> Ouch, then it's likely your ISP. You may want to check with your 
> browser whether your ISP prevents you from using direct internet 
> access. Another way to test it is to actually look at the file, e.g. try
> download.file("http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.4/PACKAGES","/tmp/test.html") 
>
> system("open /tmp/test.html")
> If everything is fine, is should be a long list of packages (looks 
> wild in the browser), but if my suspicion turns out to be true, it 
> should be some website from your ISP.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>