I am operating Linux via a High Performance Computing environment with a network of clusters & systems - so its not necessarily something that will be feasible since R is a globally accessed application on the HPC.
Aside from that, I highly doubt it's the version of R I am using as I was able to install package Rserve successfully a few weeks ago. What could be some other possibilities? Thank you! ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Winsemius [via R]" <ml-node+2215914-1819898924-258...@n4.nabble.com> Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010 4:03 pm Subject: Re: R cannot access the web? To: Trojan <ypa...@usc.edu> > > > > > 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' > > > > -- > > 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. > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > ______________________________________________ > 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.htmland provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > reproducible code. > > > ______________________________________ > View message @ http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-cannot-access-the- > web-tp2215881p2215914.html > > To unsubscribe from R cannot access the web?, click > (link removed) -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-cannot-access-the-web-tp2215881p2215934.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.