Message-ID: <68b1e2610908280009q46ab6b19yd70cb27c9700a6cd@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-08-28T07:09:46Z
From: Liviu Andronic
Subject: chooseCRANmirror()
In-Reply-To: <43b418580908270922m3db4dbbbqe25e341af5e2e3b7@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/27/09, ogbos okike <ogbos.okike at gmail.com> wrote:
> > install.packages("cvt")
> Warning in install.packages("cvt") :
> argument 'lib' is missing: using
> '/home/ogbos/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.8'
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://cran.za.r-project.org/src/contrib
> Warning messages:
> 1: In open.connection(con, "r") :
> unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org' on port 80.
> 2: In install.packages("cvt") : package ?cvt? is not available
>
I would suspect an Internet connection issue. Do you access the
internet via a proxy server? If so, configure wget and then issue
install.packages("cvt", met="wget"). Try the command even if you do
not pass through a proxy, it might just work.
Liviu