[R-SIG-Mac] Installation of packages via GUI

Fri Jul 4 00:13:56 CEST 2008

David,

On Jul 3, 2008, at 5:34 PM, David Afshartous wrote:

> I'm running R v2.7.1 on Mac OS X.  When I go to the R package  
> installer GUI, I am not prompted to select a repository.

This indicates that you selected one before and told the GUI to  
remember it. You can change it in Preferences->Startup->Default CRAN  
Mirror.

> The usual screen is there but
> the columns for package, installed version, and repository version  
> are all
> populated via blank entries.
>
> If I select "Get List" the error below occurs.  The same thing  
> occurs if I go form the command line via install.packages.  Any  
> suggestions much appreciated.
>

Probably your mirror is broken. Try selecting a different one (see  
above).

Cheers,
Simon

>
>
> Error: subscript out of bounds
> In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see  
> the first
> 50)
>> warnings()
> Warning messages:
> 1: In read.dcf(file = tmpf) ... : Line starting '<html> ...' is  
> malformed!
> 2: In read.dcf(file = tmpf) ... : Line starting '<head> ...' is  
> malformed!
> 3: In read.dcf(file = tmpf) ... :
>  Line starting '<title>HostingZero.c ...' is malformed!
>
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
> i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
>
> locale:
> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.7.1
>
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