Peter Wicher
2015-Aug-20 04:13 UTC
[R] Newbie question: error message with install.packages
Hi, I?m starting to work my way through ?Machine Learning With R? by Brett Lantz. Running on Mac OS X 10.10.4 I?ve downloaded and installed R and the R Console comes up fine. Whenever I use the install.packages command, regardless of the package I get the same error message:> install.packages ("RWeka")Error: Line starting '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLI ...' is malformed! Any idea of what is wrong and how to solve it? Thanks! Peter Wicher pjwicher at gmail.com
David Winsemius
2015-Aug-20 06:17 UTC
[R] Newbie question: error message with install.packages
> On Aug 19, 2015, at 9:13 PM, Peter Wicher <pjwicher at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I?m starting to work my way through ?Machine Learning With R? by Brett Lantz. > > Running on Mac OS X 10.10.4 > > I?ve downloaded and installed R and the R Console comes up fine. > > Whenever I use the install.packages command, regardless of the package I get the same error message: > >> install.packages ("RWeka") > Error: Line starting '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLI ...' is malformed! > > Any idea of what is wrong and how to solve it?Not sure. Have never gotten that error message, and I do use OS X 10.10.3 as well as having very recently updated to R 3.2.2. Are you using the R.app GUI? If so ? What do you see when you look at Preference/Startup for the default CRAN repository? If not ? What do you see when you run: getOption("repos?) I get: CRAN "http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu"> > Thanks! > > Peter Wicher > pjwicher at gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Peter Wicher
2015-Aug-20 17:09 UTC
[R] Newbie question: error message with install.packages
Many thanks. Yes, I am using the R.app GUI: [R.app GUI 1.66 (6996) x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0] At startup,> getOption("repos")CRAN "@CRAN@" Then when attempting again to install RWeka I'm able to select the mirror, and after that the result is the same as yours:> getOption("repos")CRAN "https://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu" Unfortunately the same error message happens with install.packages, for example:> install.packages("err")Error: Line starting '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLI ...' is malformed! I've confirmed that Java 8 update 60 is correctly loaded. Interestingly I've loaded R on my Windows machine and this error message doesn't happen, the packages load properly. Peter On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:17 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:> > > On Aug 19, 2015, at 9:13 PM, Peter Wicher <pjwicher at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I?m starting to work my way through ?Machine Learning With R? by Brett > Lantz. > > > > Running on Mac OS X 10.10.4 > > > > I?ve downloaded and installed R and the R Console comes up fine. > > > > Whenever I use the install.packages command, regardless of the package I > get the same error message: > > > >> install.packages ("RWeka") > > Error: Line starting '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLI ...' is malformed! > > > > Any idea of what is wrong and how to solve it? > > Not sure. Have never gotten that error message, and I do use OS X 10.10.3 > as well as having very recently updated to R 3.2.2. > > Are you using the R.app GUI? > > If so ? What do you see when you look at Preference/Startup for the > default CRAN repository? > > If not ? What do you see when you run: > > getOption("repos?) > > I get: > > CRAN > "http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu" > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > Peter Wicher > > pjwicher at gmail.com > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]