Hi, I had originally posted regarding an error when trying to install package - GenABEL - it has now become clear that R is not able to connect to the net. Below are a couple of things I've tried with the resulting errors
I am running R 2.6.2 on Linux e15 X86 How can I fix this? Thank you! 1) download.file("http://www.nytimes.com", destfile<-tempfile()) Error: trying URL 'http://www.nytimes.com' Error in download.file("http://www.nytimes.com", destfile <- tempfile()) : cannot open URL 'http://www.nytimes.com' In addition: Warning message: In download.file("http://www.nytimes.com", destfile <- tempfile()) : unable to resolve 'www.nytimes.com' 2) install.packages("GenABeL", lib= "/home/software/GenABEL", dep = TRUE, method = "wget") Error: Selection: 43 sh: wget: command not found Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning messages: 1: In open.connection(con, "r") : unable to resolve 'cran.r-project.org' 2: In gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open compressed file '/tmp/8379702.hpc-pbs.usc.edu/RtmpmUR48z/file66334873', probable reason 'No such file or directory' -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-cannot-access-the-web-tp2215881p2215881.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.