Dear Carlos and Michael,
2010/6/1 Michael Rutter <[email protected]>: > > > On 06/01/2010 07:05 AM, Carlos J. Gil Bellosta wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> What runs underneath is the download.file() function. >> >> Can you download a file with it? For instance, I can do >> >> download.file( "http://www.google.com/index.html";, "index.html" ) >> >> Can you? >> >> Best regards, >> >> Carlos J. Gil Bellosta >> http://www.datanalytics.com >> >> >> 2010/6/1 Mauricio Zambrano<[email protected]>: >>> >>> 2010/6/1 Carlos J. Gil Bellosta<[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> Did you try an alternative CRAN mirror? >>> >>> Yes, I have tried some of Spain, UK and Italy, but I still get the >>> same error message.... >>> >>> Kinds >>> >>> Mauricio >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Debian mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > > Mauricio, > > I was successfully able to use 'update.packages' using mirrors in both Spain > and the UK, so I can't replicate the problem right now. I do recall having > a similar issue a couple of weeks ago, but the problem fixed itself within a > couple of hours. I just assumed that the mirror I was using was having some > downtime. I was also assuming some problems with the mirror, but this should not be correct if you could update your packages with mirrors in Spain and UK (Bristol). > > Are you updating packages under your username or sudo? I think Carlos is on > the correct track in that the account or session you are using doesn't have > access to the internet for some reason. Have you rebooted your machine > lately? That may fix a problem another update created. I'm running R with sudo, and I've rebooted my Pc several times today, but still nothing.... I would like to know if there are other user experiencing the same problem, to find out if the problem is on my machine or on the mirror. > > Hope this helps, > Michael Thanks for your help. Kinds, Mauricio -- ========================== Dept. of Civil and Env. Engineering University of Trento, Italy > > > -- > Dr. Michael A. Rutter > School of Science > Penn State Erie, The Behrend College > Station Road > Erie, PA 16563 > http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
