similar to: Error with update.packages()

Dear R Users, Is there a known problem with downloading packages robustbase and tseries from the UK CRAN website ? Thanks in advance, Tolga ========================================================= R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23) Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to

Hi, While trying to install hgu133acdf- windows package in R im getting the following error and unable to install the same. > source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") > biocLite("hgu133acdf") Using R version 2.10.0, biocinstall version 2.5.10. Installing Bioconductor version 2.5 packages: [1] "hgu133acdf" Please wait... trying URL '

Hello all, I keep on getting the following error message when I try downloading statmod: > install.packages("statmod") Installing package(s) into ‘C:\Users\Isaac\Documents/R/win-library/2.12’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) trying URL ' http://www.revolution-computing.com/cran/bin/windows/contrib/2.12/statmod_1.4.9.zip ' Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode =

Dear all, I've noticed the following problem for the past several days: ---------------- snip ---------------- > update.packages(ask=FALSE) . . . trying URL 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/src/contrib/zoo_1.7-11.zip' Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : cannot open URL 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/src/contrib/zoo_1.7-11.zip'

Although I have installed R many times on many machines without problems, I have recently encountered a problem with accessing packages. R has been installed successfully with the "--internet2" option. The session info is below. > sessionInfo() R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United

[Env: Win XP] I've just upgraded from R 2.12.2 to R 2.13.1. As part of my upgrade process, I typically install some in-development packages from R-Forge that are not on cran. But for the first time, it doesn't work. e.g., > install.packages("p3d", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") trying URL

Trying to install the Matrix package with install.packages fails for me on Linux, it is trying to fetch the wrong version 0.99-4, downloading the tgz which is 0.99-6 and using R CMD INSTALL works fine The output from the failed install was > install.packages(c("Matrix")) trying URL 'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/src/contrib/Matrix_0.99-4.tar.gz' Error in

Hello, I see the following issue in R-devel since 'both' has become the default pkgType for binary platforms. update.packages() fails when you set options(repos). Looks like it is trying to download a tgz file from the src/contrib section of a repository (on a mac). To reproduce this you need to have an older version of AnnotationDbi installed, which I accomplished by faking it,

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Henrik Bengtsson" <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu> > To: "John Fox" <jfox at mcmaster.ca> > Cc: "R-devel" <r-devel at r-project.org> > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:15:36 AM > Subject: Re: [Rd] problem with update.packages() in R-Devel (3.2.0) on Windows > > It works again using: > > % R

Dear all, I am looking for a way to work out if a file on the internet exists before attempting to download it using the function download.file(). For example, using a url that does not exist url <- "http://finance.yahoo.com/ftse.csv" destfile <- tempfile() download.file(url = url, destfile = destfile) # gives the following response ... trying URL

Hi all, I just installed R 2.4.1 and tried to install the package 'sp' working down from the 'Packages' menu in the R GUI. The package would not install and I got the following message: &quot;trying URL 'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/sp_0.9-10.zip' Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = &quot;wb&quot;) : cannot

Hi, I seem to be facing a strange problem when I use Sweave for creating a LaTeX document of the R lme() output --- The EPS and PDF figure files get created, but are empty. I have attached a reproducible example below (taken from the R lme() help example). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}

Dear Ruser, > > > I am trying to use the map library. But unfortunately I am facing the > warning message above: > Warning message: > *In readGDAL(destfile, silent = TRUE) : GeoTransform values not available > * I want to use that library because I intend to plot some station in a Brazilian map. I really appreciate any help. > > ===here what I was testing========

Dear R-Help, >From reading the help file, it is my understanding the the download.file() function does not support HTTPS connections. So therefore, understandably, the follow produces an error: ### R Code > url <- "https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-October/thread.html" > destfile <- "//PFO-SBS001/Redirected/tonyb/Desktop/R_web_test/tmp.txt" >

I cant seem to get the io from a child process of a worker back to my client. There most be something academic I''m missing :/. I looked at examples in Pickaxe and Ruby PLEAC library ... and I believe the following should work: # called from within do_work... def backup(repo) logger.info(''SvnWorker backup repo ''+repo) tmp = [] my_project =

Hi, I had originally posted regarding an error when trying to install package - GenABEL - it has now become clear that R is not able to connect to the net. Below are a couple of things I've tried with the resulting errors I am running R 2.6.2 on Linux e15 X86 How can I fix this? Thank you! 1) download.file("http://www.nytimes.com", destfile<-tempfile()) Error: trying URL

I am downloading say 100 files from ucsc website and storing it into dest folder. download.file function create a file in destination folder even if the file is not present which is something I dont want. So I wrote if condition to remove the file if the download function has non zero value. Now it exits when there is an error or file not present. How can I use "try" and "if"

I am creating a database for movies (films) and television shows (shows) that will have has_and_belongs_to_many relationships with the pictures table. CREATE TABLE screenshots ( id serial NOT NULL, filename character varying NOT NULL, content_type character varying NOT NULL, primary key (id) ); CREATE TABLE films ( id serial NOT NULL, name character varying NOT NULL,

I am planning to download a large number of files from some website. I am using the following script. files2down = c('aaa', 'bbb', ................) for (i in 1: len) { print(paste('downloading file', i, ' of total ', len)); url = paste(urlPrefix, files2down[i], sep='') destfile = paste (dest, 'inDir', files2down[i], sep='/' )

fileUrl <- "https://data.baltimorecity.gov/api/views/dz54-2aru/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD"download.file(fileUrl,destfile="./data/Cameras.csv",method="curl") I tried it after installing package "RCurl" but it give error message: Error in download.file(fileUrl, destfile = "Cameras.csv") : unsupported URL schemeI can you help me to solve this