[R-SIG-Mac] problem with package repository

[David Winsemius]

On Nov 12, 2009, at 9:32 PM, Eric Lind wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am running R 2.10.0 on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.8). In attempting to
> update packages I encountered the following error:
>
>> update.packages()
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://www.biometrics.mtu.edu/CRAN/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.10
>>
>

Not able to reproduce with my chosen default (the CMU repository).  
Sometimes repositories are offline for maintenance. Is this a  
persistent problem or have your tried other repositories. (I did check  
the link your system was reporting problems with and it seems to be  
online at the ment but it appears to have a rather shallow collection.  
The packages are in name order and they end at GSM.)

The repository at http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN is much more complete.


> A similar error occurs when trying to use the Package Installer
> through the GUI menu.
>
> Navigating to the site it does appear to be incomplete, and lacks the
> "PACKAGES" index file found on the contributed pages for previous R
> versions. I hope by bringing this to the attention of the list the
> site might be refreshed.
>
> Thanks for making R so great for Mac.
>
> Eric Lind

David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT