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Installation of packages via GUI

2 messages · David Afshartous, Simon Urbanek

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David Afshartous
# 
All,

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.   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.

Cheers,
David


Error: subscript out of bounds
In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first
50)
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!
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
Simon Urbanek
# 
David,
On Jul 3, 2008, at 5:34 PM, David Afshartous wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
This indicates that you selected one before and told the GUI to  
remember it. You can change it in Preferences->Startup->Default CRAN  
Mirror.

            

      
      
      
    

        
Probably your mirror is broken. Try selecting a different one (see  
above).

Cheers,
Simon