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Hello List, Could someone tell why I can't install the Himsc and survey packages for R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)? What am I doing wrong here? Thanks, Pradip > install.packages ("Hmisc", dependencies=TRUE) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Warning: unable to access index for repository http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/bin/windows/contrib/2.13

Dear Forum my machine runs Ubuntu 9.04. I am trying to install Biomart, what I realize is that something is missing and it can't install XML, RCurl but I don't know what more to do, I looked in previous posts but I did not find infoprmation that helped. Thanks Andreia biocLite("biomaRt") Running biocinstall version 2.3.14 with R version 2.8.1 Your version of R requires version

I'm trying to install the rdatamarket package. I did an install.packages('rdatamarket') command but got an error about half way through the install as follows: * installing *source* package ?RCurl? ... checking for curl-config... no Cannot find curl-config ERROR: configuration failed for package ?RCurl? The install continued after the error but looks like it was completed. I'm

Dear list members, I encountered this problem and the solution pointed out in a previous thread did not work for me. (e.g. install.packages("RCurl", repos = "http://www.omegahat.org/R") I work with Ubuntu Hardy, and installed R 2.6.2 via apt-get. I really need RCurl in order to use biomaRt ... any help would be greatly appreciated. Best wishes, Emmanuel

summary: updating R .deb's from recommended mirrors @ http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html has allowed me to keep my R version up-to-date for many months. But since Friday (25 Jan) I get errors like Failed to fetch <mirror URI/>/squeeze-cran/<deb name/>: Hash Sum mismatch but can install .deb's from non-CRAN sources. No fix from sudo rm /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin sudo

Hi Patrick, Greetings from !(sunny) Pittsburgh. What's the scoop on RCurl on windows (XP)? I've tried to install RCurl_0.92-0.zip and RCurl_0.9-3.zip, with both R 2.7.2 and R 2.8.0 from the RGUI (utils:::menuInstallLocal), and get the error "Windows binary packages in zipfiles are not supported". which (according to google's one and only hit) comes from a perl script.

I am running the last R version on SuSE 11.1. I installed the Bioconductor environment following the instructions on the web. As a consequence some core packages from Bioconductors were installed. I need to add some more packages. So I tried biomaRt as follows. It does not get installed correctly. Please see the following sequence. Thank you in advance. Maura >

Martin, Well, thanks for jumping in! We need all the help we can get ;) I changed the execute bit as you suggested and recompiled, no luck, still the same error message. Below is the output you wanted me to look at, its a bit beyond me so I include both a brief grep summary and then the whole enchilada. I do note that my output is different from yours, but I'm not sure how to interpret. I

Martin, Well, thanks for jumping in! We need all the help we can get ;) I changed the execute bit as you suggested and recompiled, no luck, still the same error message. Below is the output you wanted me to look at, its a bit beyond me so I include both a brief grep summary and then the whole enchilada. I do note that my output is different from yours, but I'm not sure how to interpret. I

I am having trouble getting an install of RCurl to work properly on a Unix server. The steps I have taken are: 1. installed cUrl from source without difficulty 2. installed RCurl from source using the command ~/R_HOME/R-devel/bin/R CMD INSTALL -l ~/R_HOME/R-devel/library ~/RCurl_0.8-0.tar.gz I received no errors during this install 3. when I go back to R and require(RCurl), I get >

I am having trouble getting an install of RCurl to work properly on a Unix server. The steps I have taken are: 1. installed cUrl from source without difficulty 2. installed RCurl from source using the command ~/R_HOME/R-devel/bin/R CMD INSTALL -l ~/R_HOME/R-devel/library ~/RCurl_0.8-0.tar.gz I received no errors during this install 3. when I go back to R and require(RCurl), I get >

I am getting the following error while trying to install the RCurl library. I have checked that the curl and the libcurl.so.3 is already installed in the /usr/bin > install.packages("RCurl") --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done trying URL 'http://cran.hostingzero.net/src/contrib/RCurl_0.9-3.tar.gz' Content type

Dear all, I cannot load the twitteR package. When I have it installed and try to load it, I get the following response from the system: > library(twitteR) Loading required package: RCurl Error: package 'RCurl' could not be loaded Adem?s: Mensajes de aviso perdidos In library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc) : there is no package called

Dear all, I am trying to install RCurl (because I want to install devtools) and to do so I've been informed that I must install one of the packages libcurl4-openssl-dev libcurl4-nss-dev No matter which one I install I get the following error from R: * installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ... ** package ‘RCurl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked checking for curl-config...

Dear List, When I try to install tweetR on Ubuntu, I get the error message below. It is a problem with the dependency RCurl. This package is not available for Windows on CRAN, but I would assume that I should have no problem with linux. Any help is much appreciated. R version: 2.12.1 Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) * installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ... checking for curl-config... no

I have some problem in running R-cran's Demography package. The hmd.mx function need Rcurl. I tried to install RCurl, but meet the following error: ********************************************************************* ... * installing *source* package ?RCurl? ... checking for curl-config... no Cannot find curl-config ERROR: configuration failed for package ?RCurl? * removing

Dear list, I would like to call a Kerberos-authenticated web-service from within R. Curl can do it: $ curl --negotiate -u : "http://my.web.service/" so I would expect that RCurl also has the capability, but I have not been able to find the correct options to set. listCurlOptions() does not return anything with negotiate, and searching the source of RCurl, the only thing I found was

I have 64-bit R 2 12 0 installed on Solaris 10 of Sun Sparc. When I tried to install RCurl, it failed with the following lines, ............... Version has CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE libcurl version: libcurl 7.19.6 configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating src/Makevars ** libs cc -xc99 -m64 -xarch=sparcvis2 -I/apps/sparcv9/R-2.12.0/lib/R/include -I/opt/csw/include

Hi, I am trying to access a website and read its content. The website is a restricted access website that I access through a proxy server (which therefore requires me to enable cookies). I have problems in allowing Rcurl to receive and send cookies. The following lines give me: library(RCurl) library(XML) url <- "http://www.theurl.com" content <- readHTMLTable(url) content

Hello, I am having trouble getting the curlPerform function to authenticate using the .netrc file. From the documentation I've read it certainly seems as though this function should be able to authenticate via the .netrc file. The example I am using here comes from the "R as a Web Client- the RCurl package" paper and demonstrates using the .netrc file to access the