Dear R
I installed R2.11.1 on Windows XP and because of University access control I set
the Cran and web passwords in the Rprofile.site file
# set a CRAN mirror
local({r <- getOption("repos")
r["CRAN"] <- "http://cran.ru.ac.za/"
options(repos=r)})
Sys.setenv(http_proxy="http://prheeder:*****:xxxxx.up.ac.za:8080")
I connected and downloaded packages without a problem. Due to problems with R I
had R uninstalled and the re-installed. Now using exactly the same Rprofile file
as before I cannot get access to the Cran site. I get the error message:
Warning: unable to access index for repository
http://cran.ru.ac.za/bin/windows/contrib/2.11
Warning: unable to access index for repository
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.11
Error in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA, type = type)
:
no packages were specified
I have another computer accessing the web with R on the same network without any
problem.
It seems the unistall and re-install created some kind of a problem. Any advice?
Paul
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