Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of eric lee
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 9:33 AM
> To: Duncan Murdoch
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] which zip file is the emulator package?
>
> Hi, Duncan. I choose 'package' then ''install package' and tried 6
> different U.S. mirrors. The message I always get is:
>
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.7
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.7
> Error in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1], dependencies = NA,
> type = type) :
> no packages were specified
> In addition: Warning message:
> In open.connection(con, "r") :
> unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org' on port 80.
>
> I assume it's something on my end because I've been having
> connectivity issues here.
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> eric
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
> wrote:
> > On 2/26/2009 11:08 AM, eric lee wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi. ?I'm trying to run the elliptic package on my computer (windows
> >> platform, version 2.7.2). ?I downloaded the elliptic package zip
> file
> >> from
> >>
> >> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/
> >>
> >> and installed it, but it says that it needs the "emulator" package.
> >> Can you tell me where to download this? ?The only similar package by
> >> name is 'emu_4.0.zip' which is not 'emulator.' ?I also can't have R
> >> automatically install this by clicking on 'packages' and 'install
> >> package' because it gives me an error message.
> >>
> >
> > The current release gives no error if you ask it to install elliptic,
> and it
> > automatically finds that emulator is in the BACCO bundle. ?You didn't
> say
> > what the error message was that you saw, so I can't tell you whether
> it was
> > due to a problem on CRAN or with what you asked for.
> >
> > Generally speaking it's easier and less error-prone to just ask R to
> install
> > a package, rather than manually downloading and installing one.
> >
> > Duncan Murdoch
> >
>
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