I see that you have set a proxy to a nonstandard DNS name, and your first
warning is that your computer couldn't figure out where that proxy is. This
is not an R question... please talk to your network administrator about whether
you have a proxy and what it is called.
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Neil COLLIER <n.collier at ecu.edu.au> wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>I have a problem connecting to a CRAN mirror through a networked
>computer running Vista Enterprise on a Dell PC. I added
>
>http_proxy=http://gannet/ http_proxy_user=ask
>
>to the Target in the R shortcut, completed the username and password in
>the Proxy Authentication window, but get the following warning:
>
>Warning message:
>In open.connection(con, "r") : unable to resolve 'gannet'
>
>When I try to download a package I get the following messages:
>
>> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
>Warning: unable to access index for repository
>http://cran.csiro.au/bin/windows/contrib/2.15
>Warning: unable to access index for repository
>http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.15
>Error in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA,
>type = type) :
> no packages were specified
>
>
>This approach worked for me on other networks but this is the first
>time I've encountered this issue. Any help is appreciated.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Neil Collier
>Edith Cowan University
>
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