Dr. Stephan Martin Rudolfer
2001-Aug-29 11:17 UTC
Updating Packages (was Re: [R] Reading of a large SAS Export dat
It was suggested to me that, although I've installed version 1.3.0 of R, the contained foreign package won't be the most recent. Hence, it's worth using update.package(). However, when I did that, I got the following log file:> options(CRAN="http://cran.us.r-project.org/") > update.packages()trying URL `http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' unable to connect to 'cran.us.r-project.org'. Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"), : cannot open URL `http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'> > options(CRAN="http://cran.r-project.org/") > update.packages()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'>The first URL was inaccessible with Netscape. Yet when I directly accessed the second URL using Netscape, it worked perfectly, with the following result (severely edited to save space): Package: bootstrap Version: 1.0-7 Package: foreign Priority: recommended Version: 0.4-7 Could you please explain what I have to do to get download.file to work correctly? Many thanks, Stephan Rudolfer ****************************************************************************************** * Dr. Stephan M. Rudolfer Office tel: +44 161 275 5912 * * Chairman, Manchester Group, Royal Statistical Society * * Mathematics Department Dept. tel: +44 161 275 5800 * * The University Fax : +44 161 275 5819 * * MANCHESTER M13 9PL Email : s.m.rudolfer at man.ac.uk * * UK WWW : http://www.maths.man.ac.uk/DeptWeb/Homepages/smr/ * ****************************************************************************************** -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Uwe Ligges
2001-Aug-29 12:45 UTC
Updating Packages (was Re: [R] Reading of a large SAS Export dat
"Dr. Stephan Martin Rudolfer" wrote:> > It was suggested to me that, although I've installed version 1.3.0 of > R, the contained foreign package won't be the most recent. Hence, > it's worth using update.package(). However, when I did that, I got > the following log file: > > > options(CRAN="http://cran.us.r-project.org/") > > update.packages() > trying URL `http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' > unable to connect to 'cran.us.r-project.org'. > Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"), : > cannot open URL `http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' > > > > options(CRAN="http://cran.r-project.org/") > > update.packages() > 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' > > > > The first URL was inaccessible with Netscape. Yet when I directly > accessed the second URL using Netscape, it worked perfectly, with the > following result (severely edited to save space): > > Package: bootstrap > Version: 1.0-7 > > Package: foreign > Priority: recommended > Version: 0.4-7 > > Could you please explain what I have to do to get download.file to > work correctly?I guess your OS is Win2k (you didn't tell it). Try to rename \rw1030\modules\internet2.dll to \rw1030\modules\internet.dll (and save that one at first). Sometimes this procedure works... 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Duncan Murdoch
2001-Aug-29 15:29 UTC
Updating Packages (was Re: [R] Reading of a large SAS Export dat
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 12:17:59 BST, you wrote in message <7A8EDC417C3 at fs2.ma.man.ac.uk>:>It was suggested to me that, although I've installed version 1.3.0 of >R, the contained foreign package won't be the most recent. Hence, >it's worth using update.package(). However, when I did that, I got >the following log file: > >> options(CRAN="http://cran.us.r-project.org/") >> update.packages() >trying URL `http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'Notice you've got two slashes after the site name. I suspect what you want is options(CRAN="http://cran.us.r-project.org") and indeed the default for that option has no trailing backslash:> options('CRAN')$CRAN [1] "http://cran.r-project.org" Duncan Murdoch -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._