Dear all, I have a fresh install of R on a virtual desktop running Win 7 64 bit and when I try to install packages it is extremely slow.
I typed install.packages("ggplot2",dependencies=TRUE) and it takes about 1 minute for the mirror select box to open. After that I waited about 20 minutes for the ggplot package and then cancelled it (smaller packages are quicker than that but still exceptionally slow). Not sure where to start as other programs work fine and the internet connection is fine apart from in R. I have pasted Sessioninfo below. Any help is very much appreciated. many thanks Aidan. > sessionInfo() R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base [[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.