R help - Oct 2009 - Setting a mirror "permanently" on R on ubuntu

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 Sat, 2009-10-10 at 04:54 +0100, Lazarus Mramba 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.
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Lazarus

Lazarus,

use options(repos="mirror URL")

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National Institute of Cardiology
Brazil