Thanks, I will do that.
Dan Daniel J. Nordlund, PhD Research and Data Analysis Division Services & Enterprise Support Administration Washington State Department of Social and Health Services > -----Original Message----- > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 12:31 PM > To: Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA); r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] update.packages() ask for mirror several times > > On 05/05/2015 12:13 PM, Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA) wrote: > > I recently installed an R-3.2.0 binary for Win7 64-bit from a CRAN > table. Now when using the menu to update packages, it asks me to > select a mirror several times before proceeding to successfully > download and install the updated packages. It is only a minor > annoyance, was wondering if anyone else had experienced this, and if > so, is there a solution > > You could try R-patched. This was fixed this week. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > Here is my session info > > > >> sessionInfo() > > R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16) > > Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) > > Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 > > > > locale: > > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 > > [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 > > [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 > > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C > > [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > > > attached base packages: > > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > > [1] tools_3.2.0 > >> > > > > And here is the console dialogue after clicking on update packages > > > >> update.packages(ask='graphics',checkBuilt=TRUE) > > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- > > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- > > also installing the dependency ‘stringi’ > > > > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- > > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- > > trying URL > 'http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/stringi_0.4-1.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 13432789 bytes (12.8 MB) > > downloaded 12.8 MB > > > > followed by the rest of the packages which need updating. > > > > > > Dan > > > > Daniel J. Nordlund, PhD > > Research and Data Analysis Division > > Services & Enterprise Support Administration > > Washington State Department of Social and Health Services > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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. > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.