I mis-spelled "chron" and with install.packages(c("tseries", "cron")) I get tseries installed ok and cron fails as it should, but I think the warning could be more suggestive of the problem: Warning messages: 1: argument `lib' is missing: using /apps/R/library in: install.packages(c("tseries", "cron")) 2: Download of package cron failed in: download.packages(pkglist, destdir = tmpd, available = available, Also, it would be nice if update.packages did install.packages in the case where a package is not already installed, and it would be nice to be able to pass "--quiet" to wget. Paul Gilbert -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._