Hmm, have you read getCRANmirrors? It works gracefully if the
connection is down, and has been tested quite a lot ....
It seems you got a corrupt read from the URL: that's not reproducible
and the place to deal with that is getCRANmirrors.
Please do use an informative subject line: it makes things *much*
easier to find in archives.
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, chrishold at psyctc.org wrote:
> Full_Name: Chris Evans
> Version: 2.10.1
> OS: Windows XP sp3
> Submission from: (NULL) (86.159.235.204)
>
>
> I was on leave and using a wifi internet connection in France and got
connected,
> launched R (2.10.1 on Windoze XPsp3) and tried to update my packages and
got:
>
>> chooseCRANmirror()
> Error in m[, 1L] : incorrect number of dimensions
>
> It took me a bit to realise that the message was coming up because the wifi
> connection had dropped. I know it's a small issue but is it possible
to produce
> a more informative error message. I can see a bodge of changing
chooseCRANmirror
> to:
>
> function (graphics = getOption("menu.graphics"))
> {
> if (!interactive())
> stop("cannot choose a CRAN mirror non-interactively")
> m <- getCRANmirrors(all = FALSE, local.only = FALSE)
> ### bodge added here
> if (ncol(m) != 8) stop("There was a problem with access to CRAN
mirrors,
> please check your internet connection")
> ### end of bodge
> res <- menu(m[, 1L], graphics, "CRAN mirror")
> if (res > 0L) {
> URL <- m[res, "URL"]
> repos <- getOption("repos")
> repos["CRAN"] <- gsub("/$", "",
URL[1L])
> options(repos = repos)
> }
> invisible()
> }
> <environment: namespace:utils>
>
> However, I'm sure you code gurus can do much better than that.
>
> Many thanks for R: statistical wonderland, coding genius and a social
movement
> of which to be hugely proud!
>
> Chris (Evans)
>
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