update.packages() ask for mirror several times

I recently installed an R-3.2.0 binary for Win7 64-bit from a CRAN table.  Now when using the menu to update packages, it asks me to select a mirror several times before proceeding to successfully download and install the updated packages.  It is only a minor annoyance, was wondering if anyone else had experienced this, and if so, is there a solution

Here is  my session info

sessionInfo()

R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.2.0

And here is the console dialogue after clicking on update packages

update.packages(ask='graphics',checkBuilt=TRUE)

--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
also installing the dependency ?stringi?

--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
trying URL 'http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/stringi_0.4-1.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 13432789 bytes (12.8 MB)
downloaded 12.8 MB

followed by the rest of the packages which need updating.


Dan

Daniel J. Nordlund, PhD
Research and Data Analysis Division
Services & Enterprise Support Administration
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services

-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 12:31 PM
To: Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA); r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] update.packages() ask for mirror several times

On 05/05/2015 12:13 PM, Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA) wrote:

I recently installed an R-3.2.0 binary for Win7 64-bit from a CRAN

table.  Now when using the menu to update packages, it asks me to
select a mirror several times before proceeding to successfully
download and install the updated packages.  It is only a minor
annoyance, was wondering if anyone else had experienced this, and if
so, is there a solution

You could try R-patched.  This was fixed this week.

Duncan Murdoch

Here is  my session info

sessionInfo()

R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.2.0

And here is the console dialogue after clicking on update packages

update.packages(ask='graphics',checkBuilt=TRUE)

--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
also installing the dependency ?stringi?

--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
trying URL

'http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/stringi_0.4-1.zip'

Content type 'application/zip' length 13432789 bytes (12.8 MB)
downloaded 12.8 MB

followed by the rest of the packages which need updating.


Dan

Daniel J. Nordlund, PhD
Research and Data Analysis Division
Services & Enterprise Support Administration
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services

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