R devel - Oct 2009 - Setting a mirror "permanently" on R on ubuntu (PR#13995)

Dear all,

I seem to have many problems as I run R on my ubuntu system.
want to set a mirror so that anytime I use the command
"install.packages",
it does not ask me for which mirror to use but go direct.
This is because of the error I keep on getting below and I dont know how to
solve it.

Please help.

Kind regards,
Lazarus

> library(epicalc)
Loading required package: foreign
Loading required package: survival
Loading required package: splines
> install.packages("lattice")
Warning in install.packages("lattice") :
  argument 'lib' is missing: using
'/home/lmramba/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9'
Error in contrib.url(repos, type) :
  trying to use CRAN without setting a mirror
Calls: install.packages -> grep -> contrib.url
Execution halted

Exited: 256

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On 10 October 2009 at 05:55, lmramba at gmail.com wrote:
| Dear all,
| 
| I seem to have many problems as I run R on my ubuntu system.
| want to set a mirror so that anytime I use the command
"install.packages",
| it does not ask me for which mirror to use but go direct.
| This is because of the error I keep on getting below and I dont know how to
| solve it.

Can you _please stop abusing the bug tracking system_ by asking these
beginner questions?

This is answered, inter alia, in

     help(install.packages)   # telling you about option("repos")
     help(options)	      # telling you about the repos option
     help(Startup)	      # telling you about R's inits

as well as the different manuals.

Also, see one of the emails I just sent you for the concrete example:

     edd at joe:~$ cat .Rprofile
     options("width"=160)
     #options("pdfviewer"="kpdf")
     # as in AER by Zeileis and Kleiber
     options(prompt="R> ", digits=4, show.signif.stars=FALSE)
     options("repos"="http://cran.us.r-project.org")    ##
US mirror

Lastly, *please* switch to r-sig-debian for help with your Debian / Ubuntu
system and stop abusing the r-devel list and the bug tracker.

Dirk


| Please help.
| 
| Kind regards,
| Lazarus
| 
| 
| > library(epicalc)
| Loading required package: foreign
| Loading required package: survival
| Loading required package: splines
| > install.packages("lattice")
| Warning in install.packages("lattice") :
|   argument 'lib' is missing: using
| '/home/lmramba/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9'
| Error in contrib.url(repos, type) :
|   trying to use CRAN without setting a mirror
| Calls: install.packages -> grep -> contrib.url
| Execution halted
| 
| Exited: 256
| 
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| 
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