On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>>> After redirecting R 2.1.1 on my laptop to use
>>>http://cran.au.r-project.org/
>>> for the CRAN repository, the install.packages() command ran without
>>> problems. I issued the command `li
G'day Brian,
> "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> However, update.packages() wanted to update quite a few
>>> packages besides MASS (the other packages in the VR bundle,
>>> nlme, lattice &c). Once it failed on MASS, it terminated with
>>> an error and
G'day Brian,
> "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BDR> We've never encountered this lying mirror problem.
Indeed, that mirror is a worry, I guess that is the reason why it is
not on the official mirror list.
We had the problem with install.packages/update.packages und
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> After redirecting R 2.1.1 on my laptop to use
>>http://cran.au.r-project.org/
>> for the CRAN repository, the install.packages() command ran without
>> problems. I issued the command `library(MASS)' and tried out the
>> example from fitdist
We've never encountered this lying mirror problem. Perhaps you (or
another user of the unreliable mirror) could contribute suitable fixes.
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Berwin A Turlach wrote:
> G'day Brian,
>
> I am splitting my reply to your e-mail into two since there are two
> separate spinoffs.
>
>
G'day Brian,
I am splitting my reply to your e-mail into two since there are two
separate spinoffs.
> "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BDR> Check your versions of MASS. The Windows one appears to be
BDR> an outdated version, and does different things.
Thanks, y
