On May 13, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Trojan wrote:
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
Unable to reproduce with a more current version of R (2.10.1 RC
(2009-12-09 r50695) ) on a Leopard Mac.
download.file("http://www.nytimes.com";, destfile<-tempfile())
trying URL 'http://www.nytimes.com'
Content type 'text/html' length unknown
opened URL
.......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
.......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
.......... ......
downloaded 116 Kb
How can I fix this?
Have you considered updating your R installation?
--
David.
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'
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