problem with package repository
On Nov 12, 2009, at 9:32 PM, Eric Lind wrote:
Hello, I am running R 2.10.0 on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.8). In attempting to update packages I encountered the following error:
update.packages()
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.biometrics.mtu.edu/CRAN/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.10
Not able to reproduce with my chosen default (the CMU repository). Sometimes repositories are offline for maintenance. Is this a persistent problem or have your tried other repositories. (I did check the link your system was reporting problems with and it seems to be online at the ment but it appears to have a rather shallow collection. The packages are in name order and they end at GSM.) The repository at http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN is much more complete.
A similar error occurs when trying to use the Package Installer through the GUI menu. Navigating to the site it does appear to be incomplete, and lacks the "PACKAGES" index file found on the contributed pages for previous R versions. I hope by bringing this to the attention of the list the site might be refreshed. Thanks for making R so great for Mac. Eric Lind
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