On 10/16/07, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > options(download.file.method="wget") > > in your Rprofile and you should be fine for all subsequent file operations.
I added # # Set download options options(download.file.method="wget") to /usr/lib/R/etc/Rprofile.site. It does not work: R fails to connect to CRAN. However, I can install packages by manually specifying method = "wget". Thanks all for helping, Liviu ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.