thanks Uwe. I have tried a few mirrors, it makes no difference. I don't have lots of packages, as it's a fresh install. I am installing to the C drive, but as I mentioned it's a virtual desktop. However other programs don't show anything like the kind of delay I see in R. Also, just getting the prompt to choose a mirror takes a minute - could that be a network drive issue too?
many thanks Aidan. On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Uwe Ligges <[email protected] > wrote: > Probably you used a slow mirror and did not tell us which one ... or you > have lots of packages installed on a very slow drive (such as a network > connected location). > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > > On 10.06.2014 15:52, Aidan Corcoran wrote: > >> 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]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] 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. >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
