R help - Apr 2011 - Error Installing or Updating Packages (Maybe because of a proxy)

Dear R Helpers,
(I am using Ubuntu lucid and R 2.13.0
When I try to update packages I get this error:
> update.packages()
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
Error in ret[i, ] <- c(pkgs[i], lib, desc) :
  number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length

I had no problem before (case 1) but now (case 2) I cannot get it to work,
googleing did not help:
case 1:
     * connecting directly without any proxy setting (at my university)
     * using R 2.12.2
case 2:
     * connecting through proxy setting (at my workplace)
     * using R 2.13.0

I set the proxy in terminal too but it does not help (echo $http_proxy gives
me http://192.168.0.1:8080/)

-- 
Majid Einian
PhD Candidate in "Economics"
Graduate School of Management and Economics
Sharif University of Technology

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If the internet connection from R works, can you please verify that you 
do not have any R base package from an old R version in a current R 
library that you may have in the .libPaths() already?

Uwe Ligges



On 20.04.2011 09:25, Majid Einian wrote:
> Dear R Helpers,
> (I am using Ubuntu lucid and R 2.13.0
> When I try to update packages I get this error:
>
>> update.packages()
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> Error in ret[i, ]<- c(pkgs[i], lib, desc) :
>    number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length
>
> I had no problem before (case 1) but now (case 2) I cannot get it to work,
> googleing did not help:
> case 1:
>       * connecting directly without any proxy setting (at my university)
>       * using R 2.12.2
> case 2:
>       * connecting through proxy setting (at my workplace)
>       * using R 2.13.0
>
> I set the proxy in terminal too but it does not help (echo $http_proxy
gives
> me http://192.168.0.1:8080/)
>

1. you wrote to the mailing list rather than to the original poster.
2. you forgot to cite the original post, hence  we do not know what you 
are referring to.

PLease do read the posting guide to this list!

Uwe Ligges


On 03.08.2011 14:53, mohammad.gh at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello David,
> I encountered the same problem of yours.
> What did you do to resolve it?
> Thanks for your reply
> Mohammad
>
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