Message-ID: <426DE1F4.8020907@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2005-04-26T06:38:44Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: Problems installing and updating packages for 2.1.0 on Windows 2000
In-Reply-To: <00d801c54a04$a9822350$aaca5e18@glblpyirxqz5lp>
Greg Blevins wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running R 2.1.0 on Windows 2000.
>
> When I attempt to install or update packages, regardless of whether I use the menu or command line, I get the following error.
>
>
>>utils:::chooseCRANmirror()
>>utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
>
> Warning message:
> unable to connect to 'cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu' on port 80.
> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.1
> Warning message:
> unable to connect to 'www.stats.ox.ac.uk' on port 80.
> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.1
> Error in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1], dependencies = TRUE, type = type) :
> no packages were specified
>
> I have uninstalled and reinstalled R 2.1.0 to no avail. I read through the recent treads on similar problems, but if an answer to my problem we given, I missed it.
It sounds as though you need to configure a proxy for Internet access.
See the discussion in the R for Windows FAQ (which gives other
possibilities too).
Duncan Murdoch