Dear R users,
I am using R Version 1.3.0 (2001-06-22) under Windows 2000 Professional (SP 2).
When I try "Packages"->"Update packages from CRAN"
the result is something like
trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'
unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org'.
Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep =
"/"), :
cannot open URL
`http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'
Opening the same URL in Internet Explorer opens PACKAGES okay. I had the
impression (perhaps fanciful) that R used the same settings as IE. I'm less
than knowledgeable about (among other things) proxies and sockets etc, but
would greatly value your advice on getting this very handy feature working.
Thank you very much!
Regards,
Andrew C. Ward
Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Queensland
Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia
andreww at cheque.uq.edu.au
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
r-help 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-help-request at
stat.math.ethz.ch
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Andrew C. Ward wrote:> > Dear R users, > > I am using R Version 1.3.0 (2001-06-22) under Windows 2000 Professional (SP 2). > > When I try "Packages"->"Update packages from CRAN" > the result is something like > trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' > unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org'. > Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"), : > cannot open URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' > > Opening the same URL in Internet Explorer opens PACKAGES okay. I had the > impression (perhaps fanciful) that R used the same settings as IE. I'm less > than knowledgeable about (among other things) proxies and sockets etc, but > would greatly value your advice on getting this very handy feature working.The tolerance for timeouts may well be different -- I have been able to (very slowly) load files in a browser that I can't load with read.table(url()). You would probably be better off using the Oz mirror of CRAN. Set options(CRAN="http://cran.au.r-project.org") -thomas Thomas Lumley Asst. Professor, Biostatistics tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help 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-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
> When I try "Packages"->"Update packages from CRAN" > the result is something like > trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' > unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org'. > Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"), : > cannot open URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'> Opening the same URL in Internet Explorer opens PACKAGES okay. I had the > impression (perhaps fanciful) that R used the same settings as IE.IE is just another progam. You have to set up any other program (Netscape, Opera, CuteFTP, etc) with all the local config info, no matter how IE is set up. This is overall a good thing, but an occasional PITA, as you're discovering. Without knowing more about your system & network setup, it's hard to say. Two posibilities that spring to mind are: 1) firewall/proxy iterference. 2) a *really* slow local DNS server and proxy, which exceeded the default 60 second timeout If you are behind a proxy, here's the short story... install.packages() uses download.file(). ?download.file() will tell you how download.file() uses the environment variables ftp_proxy and http_proxy to get its proxy info. And this is where I stop talking -- I know nothing about how to set environment variables under any of the Windows OS family. Anyone?> would greatly value your advice on getting this very handy feature working.It is a *very* handy feature. Kudos to those who wrote it. Cheers Jason -- Indigo Industrial Controls Ltd. 64-21-343-545 jasont at indigoindustrial.co.nz -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help 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-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Andrew C. Ward wrote:> > Dear R users, > > I am using R Version 1.3.0 (2001-06-22) under Windows 2000 Professional (SP 2). > > When I try "Packages"->"Update packages from CRAN" > the result is something like > trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' > unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org'. > Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"), : > cannot open URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' > > Opening the same URL in Internet Explorer opens PACKAGES okay. I had the > impression (perhaps fanciful) that R used the same settings as IE. I'm less > than knowledgeable about (among other things) proxies and sockets etc, but > would greatly value your advice on getting this very handy feature working.Try replacing modules/internet.dll by modules/internet2.dll. Then it will use the same settings as Internet Explorer. (The docs for 1.3.0 did not get updated.) But what is there should work unless you need a proxy. Do you need a proxy? If so the correct info is Proxies can be specified via environment variables. Setting \code{"no_proxy"} stops any proxy being tried. Otherwise the setting of \code{"http_proxy"} or \code{"ftp_proxy"} (or failing that, the all upper-case version) is consulted and if non-empty used as a proxy site. For FTP transfers, the username and password on the proxy can be specified by \code{"ftp_proxy_user"} and \code{"ftp_proxy_password"}. Note that as I don't need a proxy, it is very hard for me to test that any of this works as documented. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help 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-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
"Andrew C. Ward" wrote:> > Dear R users, > > I am using R Version 1.3.0 (2001-06-22) under Windows 2000 Professional (SP 2). > > When I try "Packages"->"Update packages from CRAN" > the result is something like > trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' > unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org'. > Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"), : > cannot open URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' > > Opening the same URL in Internet Explorer opens PACKAGES okay. I had the > impression (perhaps fanciful) that R used the same settings as IE. I'm less > than knowledgeable about (among other things) proxies and sockets etc, but > would greatly value your advice on getting this very handy feature working.The default for downloading files is "internal" since R-1.3.0. For Windows 2000, you need to use the library ...\rw1030\modules\internet2.dll instead of ...\rw1030\modules\internet.dll. Simply rename the two files.>From the CHANGES file:"The default internet module modules\internet.dll is built using basic WinSock calls. There is an alternative modules\internet2.dll which uses WinInet calls (and so needs Internet Explorer installed) which can be used as a replacemnet." If you have wget installed on your system, you can also use update.packages(method="wget") Uwe Ligges -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help 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-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Possibly Parallel Threads
- update.packages with proxy?
- Updating Packages (was Re: Reading of a large SAS Export dat
- R crash with internet2.dll
- update.packages through proxy failing
- Problems installing packages using the inbuilt facility: "Error i n gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection"