Message-ID: <505DB514-DA31-43F8-885B-85797F7D78C4@r-project.org>
Date: 2008-07-03T22:13:56Z
From: Simon Urbanek
Subject: Installation of packages via GUI
In-Reply-To: <C492BE25.67C1%dafshartous@med.miami.edu>
David,
On Jul 3, 2008, at 5:34 PM, David Afshartous wrote:
> I'm running R v2.7.1 on Mac OS X. When I go to the R package
> installer GUI, I am not prompted to select a repository.
This indicates that you selected one before and told the GUI to
remember it. You can change it in Preferences->Startup->Default CRAN
Mirror.
> The usual screen is there but
> the columns for package, installed version, and repository version
> are all
> populated via blank entries.
>
> If I select "Get List" the error below occurs. The same thing
> occurs if I go form the command line via install.packages. Any
> suggestions much appreciated.
>
Probably your mirror is broken. Try selecting a different one (see
above).
Cheers,
Simon
>
>
> Error: subscript out of bounds
> In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see
> the first
> 50)
>> warnings()
> Warning messages:
> 1: In read.dcf(file = tmpf) ... : Line starting '<html> ...' is
> malformed!
> 2: In read.dcf(file = tmpf) ... : Line starting '<head> ...' is
> malformed!
> 3: In read.dcf(file = tmpf) ... :
> Line starting '<title>HostingZero.c ...' is malformed!
>
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
> i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
>
> locale:
> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.7.1
>
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