[R-SIG-Mac] loading packages hangs Mac, error in loading proxy package

[Ben Bond-Lamberty]

David, more information would be useful. Are you using the menu, or R
command line? What exactly are you doing/typing? What's your
sessionInfo()? Are you sure you have Internet connectivity, and if yes
can you read.table from an online source?

Regards
Ben


On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:32 PM, David Kaplan <dkaplan at education.wisc.edu> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm finding it difficult to load various packages from the CRAN to my Mac.
>  I've tried different mirror sites and that doesn't seem to help.
>  Typically, I get the pinwheel of death and have to force quit.  What I seem
> to notice in each case is a message that says "error: package "proxy" could
> not be loaded".  I'm not sure that is relevant to the problem, but any
> suggestions would be appreciated.