On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 19:03 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> > Second, install.packages("intervals") produced the usual line about
> > selecting a mirror, but no selection list popped up. It just sat
> there
> > until I interrupted the session and reentered the command with a
> > pre-specified repos. I selected custom install but took the
> defaults; I
> > noticed there was some optional tk/tcl stuff (which I did not
> select);
> > I'm guessing it's required for these selections. Perhaps it should
> be
> > installed by default?
>
> That's something I haven't seen before. I do get the mirror dialog,
> and
> it doesn't use tcl/tk, so I'd appreciate hearing if you can spot any
> pattern here (including the pattern "I never get it"). (The install
> option is about installing the tcl/tk help files: mainly useful if
> you're developing with tcl/tk, not necessary for most users. The
> Tcl/tk
> code itself is always installed.) It could be that R is being
> blocked
> by your anti-virus software; what it's trying to do is to read a list
> of
> mirrors from
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/CRAN_mirrors.csv
>
> using the code in getCRANmirrors(). If that download fails or is
> delayed forever, you won't get the selection list.
I see a pattern: the first time I try in a session (launched by M-x R in
emacs), it fails (i.e., nothing pops up and the R session does not
proceed). Later times, it succeeds--every single time I've tried. It
doesn't matter whether one uses the same package or different ones on
the later attempts.
I don't know if the window that comes up is Tk or not.
I don't see anything relevant in the *ESS* or *Messages* buffers.
Ross
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